Shark In Roof Headington Oxford

Very effective you have to see it to believe it.

Shark in roof headington oxford.

Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. Catch the number 8 or 9 bus from centre of oxford approx. The house is typical. Bill heine is the brains behind the shark and still owns the house.

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. Headington oxford 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. I was born into a family with a slightly unusual home it has a 25 ft fibreglass shark designed by the sculptor john buckley crashing through the roof tiles. Makes sense it looks like the work of an entertainer.

A 20ft shark diving into the roof of a house. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki well worth a visit once you have seen enough colleges and museums. This ordinary home built as a semi detached house in about 1860 but now attached by a link to a second house to the north suddenly became the centre of world attention and the headless shark still excites interest today. 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.

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. Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the. The headington shark house in east. 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 became the most famous resident of headington when it landed in the roof of 2 new high street in the early hours of saturday 9 august 1986.