This Abbey Road street sign is safely tucked away outside the studio's cafeteria, in the courtyard gardens. 

The sundial keeps perfect time - it is mechanical and rotates.

There are two deluxe apartments owned by the studio that are available to rent by persons recording at Abbey Road.

This newspaper clipping was on the bulletin board in the lounge, next to the pool table.

TEXT:    Hello, goodbye  There are several celebrity rock shrines in London, like the one to Marc Bolan in Barnes, but none is as frequently visited as the EMI Studios in Abbey Road, St. John's Wood where Sgt. Pepper was recorded and Paul famously walked barefooted on the zebra crossing.  The white wall framing the car park at the studios has become a sort of giant visitor's book. ("Go Veggie for Linda" ,   "Libby Frick loves the Beatles", etc) for Beatle fans from all over the world.  So prolific are their outpourings that the wall has to be repainted five or six times a year and is now about 30 layers thick. "The painters sometimes get abused", says studio services manager Alan Brown "and there are cases of Abbey Road rage."   "Hey man", the fans say, "you can't do that".  "We have to explain that we're covering it, not taking it away, and that one day some pop archaeologist will reveal it all again." A case then it seems, of letting it be.

Note: they painted the wall one day when I was there.  I videotaped them painting over the graffiti. I never signed my name on the wall, although it was fun to watch others doing so. Some of them thought it wasn't allowed and looked very guilty.   Some didn't care and drew huge pictures.  It was an interesting observation of various types of human behavior.   The painters did not paint over one particularly good drawing of Paul on the inside of the wall.