This has to be one of the most famous old streets in Dorset, if not much much further afield, for many it’s a little piece of Yorkshire. Cast your memory back to the year 1973 when the famous advert for Hovis bread first aired on our television sets. It was used again a number of times over the years that followed.
Carl Barlow, the young actor was 13 at the time, pushing his bike up the steep hill, his bread in the handlebar mounted basket. The brass band playing in the background certainly conjured up a Yorkshire atmosphere but it was all filmed in the South western town of Shaftesbury.
The ad features a nostalgic brass band arrangement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World").
Directed by Ridley Scott who later became one of Hollywood’s greatest!
Great atmosphere there, it is extremely steep being located atop a hill that overlooks Blackmore Vale.
Well worth a visit.
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