David Bowie’s childhood home in London is set to open to the public as a tourist attraction

Despite Brixton’s occasional, pitiful attempts to lay claim to David Bowie, the Thin White Duke was a Bromley man through and through. He grew up there, went to school there and spend much of his twenties – and early rise to fame – living in Beckenham. 

Tourism opportunities for going back to Bowie’s roots in the southeast are relatively limited: there’s a walking tour, a village fete-like Bowie festival in August, and some florid signage outside the Beckenham Zizzi’s, formerly the Three Tuns pub where Bowie had his Arts Lab club in the ’60s.

Now, however, a major new tourist attraction is putting Bowie back in Bromley big time. And it’s not a gaudy Ziggy museum or anything like that: London’s latest David Bowie attraction is his old family home. 

The Heritage of London Trust has acquired 4 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, a modest terrace where the great man lived between the ages of eight and 20. He lived here as he wrote his first songs, including his iconic early hit ‘Space Oddity’. 

In collaboration with the David Bowie Archive, the house will be restored to its exact ’60s appearance, with the centrepiece, naturally, being Bowie’s bedroom. 

It should be fascinating for Bowie completists, and also people who really like ’60s houses: exactly how much a day out one small house constitutes is TBC but presumably fairly limited, but it’ll also serve as a skills workshop for young people via the Trust’s Proud Places and Proud Prospects programme.

We all know the superstar Bowie became – but this should be a unique insight into the boy he was before that. The project is due to open in late 2027, and though there would appear to be some ambiguity the name of the venue would appear to be Bowie’s House.

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