Creating a pretty Picture at The Abbeydale Picture House
23 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Monday 8th January 2018
Report written by Tom Mutton
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A HUGE welcome to BECKY & TOM this week, new friends of the group who will hopefully be back again soon! WELL DONE to MICHELLE for spreading the GG word and growing the family! Everyone please do feel welcome to spread the word and bring along friends, all welcome.
HUGE CONGRATS to STEVE &KIM on reaching the big 50 DEED CLUB- a club that is growing with so many fantastic, committed regular runners!
This week we were back at the Abbeydale Picture House helping CADS redevelop the space.
We split into 2 groups;
TEAM BALCONY - Lifting and shifting items and trying out amazing hats and trousers (on heads...)
TEAM PVA - Coating the walls and Cherubs with a much needed coat of sealing PVA.
We even had a guided tour of the progress from STEVE on the one year anniversary of the opening. A HUGE amount of progress has been made and much of it down to the help of GOOD GYM - well done all!
FITNESS TIME this week saw the return of the cards with each runner having an exercise they performed for 10s or 10reps and then sprinted up the central aisle and back to centre stage. A great effort by all with some new exercises for some.
On route back we had a few rounds of chase the leader with some loop backs to provide some great interval sprints for those wanting to push their effort levels. WELL DONE to all who gave it a shot!
Great progress is being made on the JAN challenge, but we do need a few more deeds to be done to reach out target so now is the time to bring your friends, get to that mission or sign up to do coach runs!
Well done to all on the run!
HAPPY RUNNING ;)
TOM
Session Leader
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One of the most Beautiful buildings in Sheffield.
The Abbeydale Picture Palace was opened by the Lord Mayor William Farewell Wardley on December 20th 1920, with the silent film The Call of the Road. Designed by the architects Dixon & Stienlet of North Shields and Newcastle-on-Tyne to work as a theatre as well as a cinema, it has a generous stage with a fly tower, the UK’s only remaining “iron” safety curtain, intact and in situ, with original 1950s period advertisements. The original classical proscenium was hidden by the existing plain arch when Cinemascope was installed in the 1950s, but otherwise the auditorium remains intact and the building is listed Grade II. Soon after closing its doors on the 5th July 1975, the building was taken over by Messrs A & F Drake as an office-equipment showroom. They traded until the early 1990s, and after some years of neglect the building was taken over by the Friends of the Abbeydale Picture House as a rehearsal and performance space for amateur theatre groups. When the Friends of the Abbeydale project came to an end in 2012, the building was bought at auction by Phil Robins. Since July 2015 it has been managed by Hand Of, a Sheffield based arts platform who organise a diverse range of cultural events.
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