Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Frank Gray , Richard Marsden
Venue:	Alloa Park, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Besses-o'-the-Barn	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works (arranged Owen)	8
2	Oldham	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works (arranged Owen)	1
3	Honley	Edwin Swift	Weber's Works	4
4	Linthwaite	John Gladney	Weber's Works	6
	Alloa Colliery	John McBeath	Honoria	2
	Kirkcaldy Trades	H. Cornel	Iolanthe (selection)	3
	Portobello	J. Lilly	La Sonnambula [arr. Round] 1879	5
	Tillicoultry	James Jenkins	Meyerbeer [arr. Round] 1898	7
W	Airdrie
W	Alva Volunteers
W	Black Dyke
W	Littleborough

Source:
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder (Dundee, Scotland), Tuesday, June 02, 1885; pg. 7; Issue 9949.
12 bands entered, 8 bands played.
Hampson's book calls this "Championships of Great Britain" - the original report describes it as "open to the United Kingdom".

Prizes:
1: £40, 2: £30, 3: £14, [4: £6? 4th prize is not given in the original report where one would expect to see it, but the total prize fund of £95 would be completed by this amount]
Quickstep contest:
1 Besses, £2
2 Oldham, £1.10.0
3 Linthwaite, £1
4 Honley, 10s