Lifting, shifting, moving, scraping, sweeping, painting for Abbeydale Picture House
19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Monday 9th October 2017
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All hail the KING
This week we welcomed back a true hero after his historic completion of the York Marathon. We started this weeks run by bowing down to THE KING - STEVEN GILMER. Also, massive congrats to Caroline Woods-Peel on completing the same feet alongside Steven all the way in true @GGSHEFF teamwork fashion who will get her cheer at her next group run.
Head torches on!
With the nights closing in we put our head torches on and made a start for our destination of the Abbeydale Picture House with SOAR STEVE as our back marker.
Brief on the balcony
Sensational Steve Endless gave us a brief on the balcony and we split into 3 teams:
- Team paint outside
- Team lift & shift
- Team scrape & shape
After a good 45 mins the house was looking much more in order and it was time to get sweaty down at center stage!
Fitness time
With everyone having a card with an exercise on we worked through each ex as a unit with some center aisle sprint chucked in for good measure. After a tiring but fulfilling circuit we had thanks from the Picture House team and set off home with some added chase the sprinter chucked in for good measure.
Following a brief stretch and congrats again to Steve we headed in for some interesting chat over a drink...
Until next time,
Happy running!
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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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