Nottingham, Banksy's hula hoop child's bicycle stolen

Banksy’s latest work, which appeared last month in Nottingham on the outside wall of a beauty salon, depicted a little girl playing a hula hoop and was accompanied by a real bicycle tied to a pole that was missing its back wheel.

Now the bicycle is gone: according to the testimony of a teacher and resident, Tracy Jayne, who spoke to the Guardian, the last time she went to see the mural, which was yesterday, the bicycle was gone.

“It’s disrespectful not only to Banksy himself, but to Nottingham as a whole,” the woman commented. "The work remembered an important part of Nottingham’s history: the Raleigh bicycles." The Raleigh Bicycle Company is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world and was founded in 1885 in Nottingham itself. “It’s really sad that there are people who want to destroy art. I hope the bicycle will be found. Sometimes things magically reappear.”

Ph.Credit Ashley Kirk

Nottingham, Banksy's hula hoop child's bicycle stolen

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