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Pic: Hovis

Carl Barlow yesterday recreated his famous scene from Ridley Scotts 1973 Hovis advert - Voted Britain's favourite.

The child actor who starred in the famous Hovis TV advert today marked its 40th anniversary by returning to the iconic cobbled hill to push his bike up it again.

Carl Barlow was aged 13 when he won the starring role as a bakery delivery boy for the TV commercial that has been voted as the nation's favourite.

In the ad, the teenager was filmed struggling to push a bike laden with freshly baked bread up the steep hill to 'Old Ma Peggotty's house', the last customer on his round.

The advert, directed by Ridley Scott, was meant to depict a northern industrial town but was actually shot on Gold Hill in Shafesbury, Dorset.