London's The Capitol was Forest Hill's grandest cinema from its opening in 1929 up until October 1973. Designed in Egyptian style by the distinguished garden designer and cinema architect John Stanley Beard, it was operated by the Associated British Cinemas (ABC) from July 1933, though it wasn't renamed ABC until much later, in 1968. garden designer and cinema architect John Stanley Beard, it was opened in 1929. Although it had been operated by the Associated British Cinemas