defiant brawler.
In 1953 Bowie moved with his family to the suburb of Bromley, where, two years later, he progressed to
Burnt Ash Junior School. His voice was considered "adequate ... eleven plus exam at the conclusion of his Burnt Ash Junior education, Bowie joined
Bromley Technical High School.
It was an unusual technical school, as biographer Christopher Sandford wrote:
Despite ... David's account, Frampton led through
force of personality, not intellect; his colleagues at Bromley Tech were famous for neither, and
yielded the school's most gifted pupils