{"id":359644,"date":"2026-01-08T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359644\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:02:08","slug":"david-bowies-london-childhood-home-set-to-open-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359644\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie&#8217;s London childhood home set to open to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Bowie&#8217;s childhood home in south-east London where he wrote one of his best-known songs, Space Oddity, is to open to the public as an &#8220;immersive experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&amp;A Museum&#8217;s David Bowie Is exhibition, said the small house was where he went from an &#8220;ordinary suburban schoolboy&#8221; to the heights of &#8220;international stardom&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Bowie&#8217;s childhood home in south-east London where he wrote one of his best-known songs, Space Oddity, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-359644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}