The Headington Shark

Just off the High Street in Headington, east of Oxford, is a row of terraced houses, undistinguished apart from the 25ft basking shark, which has plummeted through the roof of number two. The shark first appeared in 1986. Bill Heine, a local radio presenter who still owns the house, has said,“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”.

Image  © John Angerson