Monument
The Headington Shark
Fibreglass shark plunging head-first into a terraced roof, a protest sculpture saved after a planning fight.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Headington Shark in Oxford starts with a summer day in nineteen eighty-six, when a radio presenter named Bill Heine and the sculptor John Buckley put something on a terraced roof without asking anyone. It follows the neighbours, the police and the city council as they work out what, if anything, they can do about it. Best heard from the pavement across New High Street, looking up at the tail.
This audio guide was created using AI.