Shefford
Shefford is a community and also civil church located in the Central Bedfordshire area of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, as well as was estimated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. Between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the website of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was situated on High Street next to the Roman Catholic Church committed to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be being used as a church. The orphanage buildings, which are seen on the right of the picture, have been developed into apartments. The orphanage structures are the most imposing in the town as well as day from the 1880s. Several files relating to the home can be found at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives as well as Records Service at Borough Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office as well as Department for Education Inspection Reports readily available that cover the period from 1962 to 1969. During The Second World War an entire Jewish children's area entered into being in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".