Shefford
Shefford is a town as well as civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire area of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a populace of 4,928, and was estimated to have actually expanded to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 5,881. In between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was situated on High Street alongside the Roman Catholic Church committed to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be in operation as a place of worship. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have been turned into apartments. The orphanage buildings are the most enforcing in the town and also day from the 1880s. Many files concerning the home can be found at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives as well as Records Service at District Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports offered that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. Throughout World War II an entire Jewish kids's neighborhood entered into remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the town as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".
