Shefford
Shefford is a town and also civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, and was approximated to have actually grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. In between 1868 as well as 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located above Street beside the Roman Catholic Church devoted to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be being used as a place of worship. The orphanage buildings, which are seen on the right of the picture, have actually been become apartments. The orphanage structures are the most enforcing in the town as well as date from the 1880s. Several files regarding the residence can be found at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives and Records Solution at District Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports available that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. During World War II an entire Jewish kids's neighborhood entered into being in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".