Shark In Roof Oxford

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.

Shark in roof oxford. 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. This is a shark diving into a roof. 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. 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 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 shark house in new high street oxford was first created in august 1986 when owner local journalist and broadcaster bill heine decided to put the 25ft figure in his roof. The people who put it there said something like this. 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. Bill heine 73 has applied to have. Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the.