ONE of Britain’s most famous views is being “ruined” by scaffolding from a nearby house renovation, visitors have claimed.
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is perhaps one of the best known backdrops ever after it was used in the famous 1973 Hovis advert.
The ‘Boy On The Bike’ ad – consistently voted the UK’s favourite – shows a youngster on two wheels delivering bread up a steep hill, a picturesque scene from a bygone Britain.
It was shot in the cobbled Dorset street, with pretty stone and thatched cottages in the background.