Shark In Roof Oxford

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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. Bill heine 73 has applied to have. 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.

Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the. The house is typical. This is a shark diving into a 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.

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 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. 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.