Mansel Lacy

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The Summer edition of the Foxley News was delayed apoplogies for that, particularly to Ginny.

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The 2010 Mansel Lacy Soap Box Derby was very successful with 29 entrants although 2 teams withdrew at the last minute. The weather was very kind this year. Plenty of warm sunshine and no rain

The track was fast with two teams breaking the old course record by a massive 2 seconds.  C12 won the Senior race by a few hundredths of a second in a time of 1min .0223 seconds. Team Treasure were second with a time of 1min .0267 seconds.

C12 was steered by Steve Thomas from Chippenham, Wiltshire who is no stranger to the track. Since last year he has produced  streamlining to his cart to the nth degree. The sleekest model by far.   

Team Treasure had bought Ian Astley’s record breaking soap box from last year This Soap Box had held the course record of
1 minute 4 seconds for a number of years. Gynfor Benjamin of Team Treasure managed to squeeze some more speed out of their new soap box.

The junior race was won by FWW3 from Eastnor with a fast time of 1.06mins, closely followed by DTGwynneSpeed, a new team from Mansel Lacy – ‘Lacer 1′ came a creditable 3rd driven by young Jack Grice and Ben Jones.

The best turned out crew was Mazdapiece, who built their cart from an aluminium ladder as the frame , then added the nosecone from a canoe, fairing from a motorbike and side pieces from the rear aerofoil of a racing cart. they also brought with them a massive support group of people.

The most innovative design of a Soap Box trophy went to Grasshopper from Yarpole

The full results follow:2010 RUNNERS

The Mansel Garden Club meets on a monthly basis, on the first Monday in the month. In the winter these meetings take place in the Community Hall in Mansel Lacy. In the summer the meetings comprise of visits to gardens or garden centres of interest

The programme for 2009 to 2010 is now availabe as a PDF below:Gard club 0910

The St. Michael’s Mansel Lacy Community Association, to give it’s full name, was set up on 21 February 1996. The Charity’s objects are the provision and maintenance of community facilities for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Mansel Lacy without distinction of political, religeous or other opinions including the use for meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said occupants.

Since 1996 a number of sections have been been formed under the umbrella of the ‘Association’.

The Garden Club, the Lacy Ladies, The Get Together Club, the Soap Box Derby. Each of these section will have it’s own category.

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