Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Love in a Mist 1896
Adjudicators:	Charles Hall , T. Valentine , H. Whitehead
Venue:	Victoria Pier, Blackpool

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Blackpool Lifeboat	Alexander Owen	9
2	Farington Mills	Thomas Snape	7
3	Freckleton Subscription	William Rimmer	5
4	6th Lancs Artillery	J. Hirst	6
	Poulton-le-Fylde	W. Powell	1
	St. Annes-on-Sea	A. Hargreaves	2
	Preesall Temperance	M. Longshaw	3
	Fleetwood	N. Stonestreet	4
	Bamber Bridge Subscription	William Rimmer	8
	Brindle Subscription	Fred Durham	10
	Marton Institute	J. Spencer	11
	Kirkham Subscription	William Rimmer	12

"The Championship of the Fylde"
Prizes: £21 15s, £4, £2, £1
Cornet contest 1. Joseph Cockshutt, 2. W.E. Taylor.
12 bands competed