Something for Beatles and Harry Potter Fans

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A visit to London is not complete specially as far as I am concerned if I don't visit the Abbey Road Studios and The Kings Cross Subway 9 & 3/4 platform. THE ABBEY ROAD CROSSING

Abbey Road Studios is most closely associated with the Beatles, who recorded almost all of their albums and singles there between 1962 and 1970. The Beatles named their 1969 album, Abbey Road, after the street where the studio is located (the recording studio would only be named Abbey Road after the Beatles record in 1970) The Abbey Road pedestrian crossing in Northern London is one of the world’s most famous because it is on the cover of a Beatles album. Now, the British government has put it on the list of national heritage sites. The crossing, however, is not in the exact same place it was when the Beatles walked over it in 1969. It was moved about 3 meters because of traffic reasons in the 1970s. For real fans of the Fab Four it doesn’t matter, the site still remains a place which thousands of Beatles fans visit every year. Normally, only buildings and other architectural sites get the award. It is the first time that a section of a street became part of Britain’s National Heritage. The crossing is near the Abbey Road studios where the Beatles made most of their records. Today it can be seen around the world on a special webcam (http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/ ). The studio building itself became listed by British Heritage last February.

How to get here: Take any bus going to Abbey Road from central London

HARRY POTTER-PLATFORM NINE-AND-THREE-QUARTERS

Although not an actual film location, this brown brick wall has become a magnet to Harry Potter fans like us from around the world.

They come to photograph the sign, which the station authorities have obligingly put up in honour of the station's most famous passenger. They have also taken the trouble to place a luggage cart against the wall which looks as though it is half way in to the wall, as though some young witch or wizard is proceeding on their way to board the Hogwarts Express!

How to get here: Take subway to Kings Cross SUbway Station .Enter the station,once inside the station keep straight ahead, following the sign that points to Platforms 9 to 11/

Keep ahead past the ticket office and then pass to the right of the Disabled Meeting Point sign.

Keep ahead past the Cash machines and on the right, directly under the footbridge, is Platform 9 3/4.