Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Oliver Gaggs
Venue:	Cob Wall Cricket Ground, Blackburn

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Accrington	John Gladney	William Tell [arr. Gladney] 1874	5
2	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift	Le Prophete [unknown arranger]	2
3	Denton Original	Edwin Swift	Tannhäuser [unknown arranger]	3
4	Clayton-le-Moors	Isaac Marsden	Oberon [unknown arranger]	1
5	Blackburn Temperance	Isaac Marsden	Oberon [unknown arranger]	4

17 bands entered. Only 5 competed.

Prizes: 14 and 9 guinea cornet, £9, £4, £2, £1

Clayton won the quickstep contest