The Shark Is A Roof Sculpture In An Oxford Suburb

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 is a roof sculpture in an oxford suburb.

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. Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. Suburb of headington oxford. Makes sense it looks like the work of an entertainer.

The sculpture which is reported to weigh 4 long hundredweight 200 kg and is 25 feet 7 6 m long and is made of painted fibreglass is named untitled 1986 written on the gate of the house. 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. Local council has wanted it gone for some years but failed. It took three months to build.

The fibreglass fish was installed on the roof of a house in headington oxford in 1986. The shark first appeared on 9 august 1986 having been commissioned by the house s owner bill heine a local radio presenter. A shark sculpture that sticks out of the roof of a house in oxford is getting a new coat of paint on its 32nd birthday. Bill heine 73 has applied to have.

The oxford city council once sought to remove untitled 1986 a twenty five foot fibreglass shark installed on the roof of a home in headington oxford. Owner bill heine commissioned the sculpture and fought and won long legal battle with the council to keep it. Shark hooked on roof. 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.