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I'm glad you've replied as I realised it's been a while since you made the post. Number 77 City Road is opposite Dockland Settlement and in fact I can see it from my office window. However our address is 74-80 City Road and I am not aware of any previous use as a hostel as it's usage was as a youth centre back then but then it's possible that other houses opposite may have been used as hostels. The person I knew who was living here at some point in the 70's was called Rose Richards who was a youth worker at the centre and lived here with her children. The houses on City Road at the time however were quite often divided into flats (a lot still are) and housed a lot of newly arrived immigrant families from Ireland and Jamaica (including my own family at one point). As the properties were known as being quite over-crowded and often in disrepair they probably had quite a high turnover of tenants which might explain the low numbers registered to vote. There was also a hostel around the corner in Brighton Street which was for women escaping domestic violence which I believe was run by Social Services although it would be pretty impossible to find out who stayed there. I hope this helps and if can be of any other assistance please let me know.