David Bowie's Childhood Home

The lowdown

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in 1947 in a modest terraced house on Stansfield Road, Brixton, and spent his first years here before the family moved south. There is no grand monument, just an ordinary south London street, which is rather the point, the everyday beginnings of one of the most extraordinary artists Britain has produced.

Fans make the quiet pilgrimage to see where it started, sometimes leaving a small tribute. It is a private home, so you admire it respectfully from the pavement, free of charge, ideally as part of a wider Bowie trail taking in the famous Aladdin Sane mural nearby.