HEADINGTON residents can be forgiven for having a sense of deja vu.

Anyone walking down London Road this week would have been surprised to see a shark appear on the roof of a local fish and chip shop – a third of a mile from the famous shark house in New High Street, inset.

Posh Fish owner Manny Malta is behind the Oxford district’s latest aquatic sculpture, which was installed over the weekend.

He said: “The Headington community love their sharks and they have been taking pictures of it since it was put up.”

It was just over 25 years ago that Headington residents first woke up to see the house in New High Street crowned with a 25ft basking shark.

The sculpture, dubbed Untitled 1968, was put up by BBC Oxford Radio presenter Bill Heine on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Patrick Kennedy, 25, pictured, was one of the passers-by who saw the area’s newest resident.

He said: “I quite like it actually, and it is nice that you can see its head.”