Mystery of bananas left on Nottinghamshire road has residents a-peeling for answers
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Plate with peeled fruit has been showing up in Beeston every month for more than a year, residents say. Residents on a Nottinghamshire road have been left perplexed as to why a mysterious plate of bananas keeps appearing on their street corner once a month.
The bananas – always whole but peeled – have been showing up on a regular basis in the residential area of Beeston for more than a year, residents say, and people are keen to find out who is leaving them there. “I think it has been happening for at least a year. I see them all the time, it’s difficult to remember exactly when,” said Claire Fenwick, who lives nearby. “I’ve never seen anyone leaving them. They could be for animals but I’ve never seen a peck taken out of them.
“My friend will message me to say, oh, the bananas are back today. But we have no idea where they’re coming from, or who is doing it.”. The bananas – about 15 to 20 are left each time – are placed on a plate opposite a church on the corner of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue in Beeston, a town about three miles south-west of Nottingham.
Some residents said they were oblivious to their presence and had walked past the spot multiple times without noticing them. “What bananas?” asked one woman peering out her window a couple of doors down. Others said they always noticed them and were desperate to know the story behind them. James Oviedo said he walked his dog past the corner nearly every day, and thought the bananas had been appearing for two years.
