Shark In Roof Oxford

Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the.

Shark in roof oxford.

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 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. 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. The people who put it there said something like this.

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. 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. 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. Bill heine 73 has applied to have.

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 house is typical. This is a shark diving into a roof.