Heritage of London Trust has announced David Bowie’s childhood home in Bromley, South London will be restored and opened to the public in late 2027.

The property, located at 4 Plaistow Growe in Bromley, served as Bowie’s creative sanctuary from 1955 through 1967. Bowie began his musical journey from the house, writing his formative songs and regularly returning in the following years.

The house will be used for creative and skills workshops for young people.

The heritage project, which is scheduled to be completed by late 2027, will restore the “two up, two down” railway workers’ cottage to its original early 1960s appearance.

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 Bowie went from an “ordinary suburban schoolboy” to the heights of “international stardom.”

“As he 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 recalled.

The project is backed by A £500,000 grant from non-profit group Jones Day Foundation, along with a public fundraising campaign.

“It’s wonderful to have this opportunity to tell David Bowie’s story and inspire a new generation of young people and it’s really important for the heritage of London to preserve this site,” said Nicola Stacey, director of Heritage of London Trust.

Source: RTT Music News