Shark In Roof 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.

Shark in roof oxford.

Bill heine 73 has applied to have. 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. This is a shark diving into a roof. The people who put it there said something like this.

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 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. 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 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.

It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki. The house is typical. 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.