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Belle Vue Brass Band Contest

Mon 31 Aug 1863



Format: Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece: Faust [Gounod, unknown arranger]
Adjudicators: E. Stanton Jones , Alfred Phasey , Jules Riviere
Venue: Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position Band Conductor Music Set Test Draw
1 Black Dyke Mills Frank Galloway 2
2 Bacup John Lord 5
3 Craven Amateur (Silsden) G. O'Brien 6
4 Preston Jasper Norwood 3
5 Dewsbury John Peel 8
Foxhill Samuel Bentley 1
Compstall Bridge Henry Tymm 4
Delph Amateur William Hudson 7

'Own Choice' plus Faust, Gounod
Prizes: 1st: £30 2nd: £14 3rd: £7 4th: £4.10 5th: £2.
A discrepency in bands occurs - Derek Rawlinson in his book shows Foxhill conductor S.Bentley, whilst British Bandsman 10/8/1963 shows a band called Scholes near Cleckheaton as conducted by Samuel Bentley.





Printed from https://brassbandresults.co.uk/