Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Kyrie and Gloria from Mozart's 12th Mass [unknown arranger]
Adjudicators:	Thomas Batley , John Ellwood , Mr Range
Venue:	Raikes Hall Gardens, Blackpool

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Matlock Bridge	John Naylor	Herculaneum 1868
2	Darwen 2nd L.R.V.	William Ellis	Un Ballo in Maschera [unknown arranger]
3	Trawden	Harrison Whittaker	Herculaneum 1868
4	Colne	James Duerden	Oberon [unknown arranger]
5	Dewsbury (29th W.R.)	Benjamin Denton Jackson	Maritana [unknown arranger]
	Accrington	Richard Smith
	Besses o' the Barn	Walker Hulton
	Black Dyke	William Rushworth
	Bury	J. Hazlitt
	Dewsbury Old	John Peel
	Newchurch	Ormerod Houldsworth
W	Burnley
W	Elland
W	Nelson

See
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc4286.htm

Band Contest - Raikes Hall, Blackpool
The third annual brass band contest took place at BIackpool. Fourteen bands entered, but only ten took part in the contest, and these were the following: Accrington, conductor Mr. R. Smith; Black Dyke, Mr. W. Rushworth; Besses o' the Barn, Mr. W. Hutton; Bury, Mr. J. Hazlitt; Colne, Mr, James Duerden; Darwen, 2nd L.R.V., Mr. W. Ellis; Dewsbury, 29th W.R. , Mr. B. Jackson; Dewsbury Old, Mr. John Peel; Matlock Bridge, Mr. J. Naylor; Newchurch, Mr. O. Holdsworth; Trawden, Mr. H Whittaker. Mr. J. Ellwood, conductor of the Earl of Ellesmere's band, Worsley; Mr. Batley, of WorsIey; and Mr. Range, of Blackburn, officiated as judges. The prizes were awarded as follows: First (£47), Matlock; second. (£27 12s,), Darwen; third (£18), Trawden; fourth (£5), Colne; fifth (£3), Dewsbury, 29th W.R.

Prizes: £25 and bombardon, £15 and tenor horn, £7 10s and cornet, £5, £2