‘It went in beautifully as the postman was passing’: the story of the Headington Shark
The fibreglass fish in the roof of an Oxford house was commissioned in 1986 by Bill Heine, who died last week
Aamna Mohdin
The Headington Shark
One April evening in 1986, Bill Heine was sitting on the steps opposite his newly purchased terraced house in Oxford, drinking a glass of wine, when he turned to his friend and asked a simple question: “Can you do something to liven it up?”