A rare photograph offers a different picture of the Beatles from their 1969 Abbey Road album. It’s expected to fetch over thousand dollars at auction. A rare photograph showing the Beatles walking across the Abbey Road pedestrian crossing could fetch up to 31500 USD, a London auction house said on Monday. This one is a collector’s item with a difference: the version that was printed on the 1969 Abbey Road album shows the band walking from the photographer’s left to right. In the version up for sale by Bloomsbury auctions John Lennon, wearing a white suit and shoes, leads the group from right to left. On the album, Paul McCartney is walking barefooted, but in this shot he is wearing chunky sandals. [Sarah Wheeler, Photography Expert, Bloomsbury Auctions]: “I think one of the reasons why this photograph has had so much attention is because it is an outtake from the original cover. The Beatles are walking towards Abbey Road studios rather than away from Abbey Road studios, Paul McCartney is wearing sandals rather than being barefoot, which he is in the original cover, so for Beatles fans I think that’s going to be interesting.” The fact McCartney was without any shoes or socks on the album cover prompted a string of bizarre conspiracy theories among some fans who believe that McCartney actually died in the sixties and had been replaced by a body double. They see the album cover as filled with hidden clues — with McCartney’s bare feet representing his difference from the …