Remains of fireworks - and Mr Bean's hand - strewn across city car park

The car park between Shipley-Airedale Road and East Parade in historic Little Germany was today covered in the remains of dozens of fireworks including a box of Topaz fireworks and a Sugar Skull Fountain box.

One box reads “Ammo – 64 rounds.”

Fireworks in the Little Germany car park (Image: T&A)

As well as the firework remains, a soiled mattress has been dumped on the side of the car park, along with numerous glass bottles.

More unusually, the waste also includes a wooden hand that has apparently been ripped from a nearby piece of art featuring comedy icon Mr Bean.

The hand that once belonged to the Mr Bean themed art work (Image: newsquest)

When the Telegraph & Argus visited the site of the Mr Bean artwork – which depicts the loveable oaf frantically trying to keep a ravenous velociraptor from bursting through the fire door of Caspian House – they found that the character had indeed been de-gloved.

The damaged Mr Bean artwork (Image: newsquest)

The work was one of several quirky pieces of street art created early in 2016 by Moonie, Bradford’s answer to Banksy.

The car park is yards from several apartment buildings.

Opposite the car park a deflated child’s garden toy has been dumped on the pavement. Bags of waste are also strewn across the pavement on the opposite side of Scoresby Street – next to Olicana House.

Fly tipping on the streets of Little Germany (Image: newsquest)

Bradford Council has been contacted for a comment.

Little Germany was named after the European wool barons that transformed this area of the city during the height of Bradford’s time as a wool producing powerhouse.

The mattress dumped in a car park in Little Germany (Image: newsquest)

It is a Conservation Area, and has the highest concentration of listed buildings of any area in Europe.

Fireworks left in the car park in Little Germany (Image: T&A)