David Bowie’s South London Childhood Home Set to Open to the Public

David Bowie’s South London childhood home set to open to the public

A terraced house in Bromley is being transformed into an immersive 1960s experience, allowing visitors to walk through David Bowie’s childhood home – including the bedroom where he wrote Space Oddity. David Robert Jones, later known as David Bowie, lived in the railway workers’ cottage at 4 Plaistow Grove when he was aged 8 to […]

£1m project to restore David Bowie’s Bromley childhood home

No4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley is, in most respects, an unremarkable suburban terraced house, similar to tens of thousands of 20th Century homes, but for the fact that it was where, between the ages of eight to 20, David Jones grew up with his family. That Jones later became known as David Bowie has persuaded…