David Bowie’s Childhood Home will open to the Public After Restoration
The house at 4 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, where Bowie lived from the age of eight to 20, has been acquired by Heritage of London Trust.
The home will be returned to its early 1960s appearance and a never-before-seen archive will help to recreate the interior layout as it was when Bowie lived there.
Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&A Museum's David Bowie Is exhibition, said the small house was where he went from an "ordinary suburban schoolboy" to the heights of "international stardom".
"As David Bowie said, 'I spent so much time in my bedroom, it really was my entire world, I had books up there, my music up there, my record player, going from my world upstairs out on to the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room'," Marsh explained.
The work will be backed by a £500,000 grant from the Jones Day Foundation, a non-profit group funded by lawyers and staff with the Jones Day law firm, along with a public fundraising campaign launching this month.
Nicola Stacey, director of Heritage of London Trust, said: "David Bowie was a proud Londoner. Even though his career took him all over the world, he always remembered where he came from and the community that supported him as he grew up.
"It's wonderful to have this opportunity to tell his story and inspire a new generation of young people and it's really important for the heritage of London to preserve this site."
Main Image: Courtesy Heritage of London Trust