Shark In Roof Oxford

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.

Shark in roof oxford.

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

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. 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. 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. 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.

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