Bowie’s home in Beckenham

From October 1969 until May 1972 David, his wife Angie and their friends lived in Haddon Hall, a large house in 42 Southend Road, Beckenham. The photograph shows him in the garden of the house. Sadly, the house was demolished in the early 1980s.

Angie told The Times in 2017, “I got Haddon Hall from two professors with 18 cats. The house was full of plants, so you can imagine what the cats did. They thought they were outside. But by the time I bleached it down it felt like ours. The boys in the band lived in the mezzanine, Tony Visconti [Bowie’s producer] built a rehearsal room in the basement and our nanny [Marion Skene] lived in the basement flat."

There is a graphic novel “Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie” about this special place, created by a Tunisian/French artist - and Bowie fan - called Nejib. Actually, David became Bowie a couple of years before moving to Haddon Hall but it must have been here that Ziggy Stardust was born.

Bowie’s home in Beckenham

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