BEE Gees star Robin Gibb has made an emotional return to his childhood home.

The singing star took film crews on a tour of his former home on Keppel Road in Chorlton – where the Gibb family lived in the 1950s – for his up-coming appearance on the popular topical TV programme, The One Show.

During the tour of the house – which will form a feature slot for the BBC programme showing stars in their childhood homes – Robin revealed some of his most treasured memories of his time growing up in the suburb.

He told film crews how he and his brothers performed some of their earliest-ever gigs just down the road from their home on Keppel Road at a recording studio called The Gaumant – which is now the Co-op Funeral Parlour.

And the singer was in no need of a guide to show him around the house in its current state as he told how he remembers the exact lay out and set up of his childhood home ‘as if it were yesterday’.

Robin and his brothers Barry and Maurice bought their old family home in 2002. It is rented out on their behalf by a local property company.

As well as the good times, Robin also revealed that his brother Barry once got knocked down right outside their home as he was ‘always running around the place’.

Stephen Davis, partner at Martin and Co – which manages the property – met Robin while he was filming the BBC footage, which is expected to be aired in January next year.

Stephen, who met Robin with co-worker Moire Lavin, said: "Robin obviously has a great emotional attachment to the house and was saying how it hasn’t changed one bit since he lived there.

"During the filming he walked down Keppel Road and then walked through the house, pointing out little memories, such as where his father used to practice the drums

"Robin told me that he remembers exactly how the house was set up as if it were yesterday and how he enjoyed his early years in Chorlton very much.

"He has always kept his Chorlton roots close to his heart and remains very much in touch with the area."

When living on Keppel Road the Gibb brothers attended nearby Oswald Road Primary School, and have visited the school on a number of occasions.

Robin and Barry attended the official opening of the Maurice Gibb Recording Studio at Chorlton High School -then Oakwood High - memory of their brother Maurice Gibb, the third member of the Bee Gees, who died in 2003.

Robin and Barry, who grew up on Keppel Road, earned a reputation as teenage terrors, stealing from shops and starting fires. It prompted their father Hugh Gibb to look for a way to save his sons from a life of petty crime and the Gibb family emigrated to Australia in 1958, shortly after the birth of the youngest brother, Andy, who later died in tragic circumstances after a brief career as a solo artist in the seventies.

Maurice Gibb revealed the extent of the brothers’ unruly antics before his death in 2003. He told how Barry and Robin regularly shoplifted along the main high street and how, on one occasion, Robin caused chaos by setting fire to the billboards at Chorlton crossroads.

The brothers also developed a taste for truancy and getting into trouble. Maurice said: "Barry and Robin were pilfering left, right and centre from Woolies and getting away with it.

"One day, I was walking home and all the billboards in the main street in Chorlton were blazing away, firemen and policemen running around everywhere. That was Robin, the family arsonist. Another time he set the back of a shop on fire."

The group’s showbusiness career began at a young age while Barry, the oldest Gibb brother at nine, and younger twins Maurice and Robin, then six, were still pupils at Oswald Road Primary School.