Shark In Roof Oxford

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Shark in roof oxford.

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. 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. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki. Bill heine 73 has applied to have.

This is a shark diving into a 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. 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. 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.

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. Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the. 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.