Shark In Roof Oxford

Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the.

Shark in roof oxford. The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation. The fibreglass fish which became known as the headington shark after the oxford suburb led heine a local journalist and businessman who died last week into a six year legal battle with the. It s pretty cool to see a shark sticking out of a roof a great photo opportunity super easy to find as it s on a residential street. A terminally ill man whose house has become a tourist attraction with a 25 foot shark in the roof has launched a bid to preserve the monument after his death.

Bill heine 73 has applied to have. The house is typical. For 35 years i ve been visiting oxford and as long as i can remember mber the big sharks diving into the roof oxford wouldn t be oxford without the shark a very unusual sight to see. The people who put it there said something like this.

A house with a 25ft great white shark sticking out of its roof could be made a national treasure by the same council which wanted it torn down. One drizzly afternoon this past april anne whitehouse and john buckley stood outside a two story brick house on new high street in the english suburb of headington oxford. The headington shark proper name untitled 1986 is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 new high street headington oxford england depicting a large shark embedded head first in the roof of a house.