They were cheered on while scrambling up Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street in Shaftesbury in Dorset - immortalised by the ad directed by future movie director and knight Sir Ridley Scott.
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Carl Barlow, 64, appeared in the iconic commercial aged 13 in 1973 where he was filmed struggling to push a bike with a basket full of freshly-baked bread up a steeped cobbled paved hill.
A run-down cottage on the iconic Gold Hill featured in the Boy on the Bike TV advert for Hovis bread is up for sale for £535,000 after its owner, a builder from Bristol, restored the home to its former glory.