Sand & Deliver, your Monet or your life!
29 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Monday 14th May 2018
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Report written by Tom Mutton
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A TERRIFIC 29 were along this week to help out CADS at the Abbeydale Picture House with renovations galore going on!
We had some new faces this week, so please put your hands together, woop, hola and cheer for;
Welcome to the group you three, glad to have you as part of the team.
We were welcomed at the Picture House this week by;
- FANTASTIC PHIL
- PICTURESQUE PAUL
- SENSATIONAL SAVERIO
On arrival we split into 4 teams;
- Sanding & wiping skirting boards
- Arranging & PVA'ing office
- Painting stairwell to the top floor
- Moving artwork to the top floor
With Stevie G asking Paul to 'show him the Monet' he did and as such team move the artwork were done in record time so joined in helping with the skirting boards.
A great effort by all, with as ever people not wanting to come away from the hard work they were doing, but fitness time was calling which this week took us over to the U-Mix center for some hard-core planking!
We split into 2 teams and lined up shoulder to shoulder in two lines, the end person then got onto all fours and gave high fives to each of their planking team mates until reaching the end of the line where the next person would start. There was some dubious high 5's going on but all had fun and got a good core workout so all is well.
Special mention to TREMENDOUS TOM who had a bit further to go than anticipated on his go round...
On route back we sprinted the 60m track, regrouped at the top and headed home for some floor based stretching on the glorious grass outside our home of the Showroom.
Until next week, happy running!
This task supported
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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