Jasmine Bingo Club, London Rd, Forest Hill, Lewisham, 1992, 92-7e-13 - from our story 'Photos of London’s Cinemas in the 1980s'

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Jasmine Bingo Club, London Rd, Forest Hill, Lewisham, 1992, 92-7e-13 Grade II listed, built as The Capitol Theatre in a Neo-Classical style by cinema architect John Stanley Beard it opened in 1929. It was taken over by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) in 1933 and renamed ABC in 1968, closing in 1973 and staying empty until it became a Mecca Bingo Club in 1978, later becoming the Jasmine Bingo Club. After Jasmine went bust in 1996 it was again empty until it was opened as a Wetherspoon pub, The Capitol in 2001. They closed it in 2014, but failed to sell it and it reopened in 2017. I visited its interior in 2021.

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