This collection of pictures show how Dorset has changed over the years.
They're from north Dorset and provide some interesting contrasts of towns and villages some years ago compared to now.
Famous steep cobbled street Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is, of course, known as the 'Hovis street'. The TV advert featuring a bread delivery boy making his way up the hill with his was voted Britain's favourite commerical of all time.
In the nostalgic advert, a boy pushes his bicycle up Gold Hill to deliver a loaf of bread before freewheeling back down to the baker’s to the soundtrack of Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
The view looking down from the top of the street has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England" and often appears on the covers of books, calendars and chocolate boxes.
Here, we bring you two wonderful old pictures of Gold Hill contrasted with modern day pictures.
Gold Hill at Shaftesbury, picture circa 1900. Image courtesy of Gold Hill Museum
The same view in 2014
Shaftesbury’s Gold Hill the scene of the famous Hovis advertisement, pictured around the beginning of the last century
The same view in 2014
The Corn Exchange, market place, Blandford picture in August 1969. Picture Kitchenham Ltd.
The same view in 2014
Blandford railway arches being blown up in 1978
The same view in 2014
Former railway arches in Blandford pictured in 1978
The same view in 2014
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