The installation was erected by Magnus Hanson-Heine’s father and a local sculptor in 1986 as an anti-war, anti-nuke protest.
FILE - A fibreglass sculpture known as the Headington Shark and originally called"Untitled 1986", by British sculptor John Buckley stands appearing to crash through the roof of a house in the Headington area of Oxford, England, on April 30, 2019. The 25-foot tall sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of Magnus Henson-Heine’s house in Oxford, England, is now a protected landmark — and he’s not happy about it.
“Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it,” Hanson-Heine, a quantum chemist, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Heine and his friend sculptor John Buckley built the great white out of fiberglass, then installed it on Aug. 9, the 41st anniversary of the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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