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Belle Vue Brass Band Contest

Mon 05 Sep 1853



Format: Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators: Mr Dowling , John Ellwood , John Oakden (Snr)
Venue: Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position Band Conductor Music Draw
1 Mossley Temperance William Taylor The Heavens are Telling [unknown arranger]
8
2 Dewsbury Squire Greenwood Lucrezia Borgia [arr. S. Greenwood] 1853
1
3 Bramley Temperance M. Whitley The Heavens are Telling [unknown arranger]
7
4 Bury Borough James Binns 2
Saddleworth & Haybottoms John Hamson 3
Newton Bank Print Works (Hyde) John Ainsworth 4
Nantwich Thomas Hassal 5
Woodside (Halifax) Jonathan Settle Tancredi - overture (unknown arranger)
6

Two Own Choice Selections played by each band.
Prizes: - 1st: £16, 2nd: £6, 3rd: £4, 4th: £2
The draw above is not the original draw, but the order of play.
"The Mossley Band turned up too late to play in their original draw position, but were allowed to perform later." (Brass Bands, Arthur R. Taylor).
Alex Hesling who played for Bramley states J. Jackson was their conductor. (Brass Band News December 1904)





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