Abbey Road
Thursday, 16th March 2006 by Alex Turnbull
This is the Abbey Road zebra crossing, just outside Abbey Road studios, where the iconic Beatles cover for their album 'Abbey Road' was shot. Abbey Road was the final album recorded by the Beatles, and the cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and imitated album covers in recording history. To this day tourists can be seen posing on the crossing nearly every day (although unfortunately, there was nobody there when his shot was taken).
Here in the UK as well as Zebra crossings, we have all sorts of other animal-themed pedestrian crossings too - Pelican, Puffin, Toucan and Pegasus! I don't think it would be that easy to spot the differences via satellite though...
Thanks to Liam, David Rowcliffe, Tom and moskito.
Update: You can now watch the Abbey Road crossing live 24 hours a day via this webcam.
More about Abbey Road, Abbey Road Studios, Abbey Road (the album) and the ridiculous conspiracy theory surrounding the cover over at Wikipedia.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
I’ve created a list with some Cover arts’ locations here:
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bye 🙂
Couple more Beatles things. Click on map or hybrid and this one will become obvious
View Placemark
Paul McCartney’s childhood home at 20 Fortlin Road now owned by the National trust and open to the public.
View Placemark
You forgot about Panda crossings!
I asked this on VGT, but maybe this time I can get a Brit ear: Why is the centerline zig-zagged on that road?
means you are coming upto a zebra crossing, telling you to slow down and be cautious.
Unfortunately the zebra crossing on Abbey road has moved about 20 metres down the road since the Beatles photo so this crossing although on Abbey Road isn’t where the Beetles crossed. I’m suprised there’s no one on it as there’s nealry always hordes of Japanese and American tourists recreating the famous crossing.
In response to the query regarding the zig-zag lines either side of the Pelican Crossing: they are there to prevent cars parking near to the crosswalk.