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.

Shark in roof oxford.

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. 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. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki. 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. This is a shark diving into a roof. The house is typical. 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.

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. Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had 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.