Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Le Prophete [arr. Winterbottom] 1869
Adjudicators:	Daniel Godfrey , Wellington Guernsey , Alfred Phasey
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Bacup	John Lord	9
2	Matlock Volunteers	John Naylor	7
3	Burnley 17th L.R.V.	William Harrison	10
4	Besses o' th' Barn	Walter George Chapman	6
5	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift	4
	Stalybridge (13th C.R.V.)	Alexander Owen	1
	Longsight Steam Sheds	J. Fotheringham	2
	Wednesbury	Alfred Gilmer	3
	Stalywood	William Taylor	5
	Denton Original	Alfred Gilmer	8
	Meltham Mills	John Berry	11
	Compstall Bridge	Alfred Gilmer	12
	Black Dyke Mills	Samuel Longbottom	13
W	7th L.R.V. Accrington
W	Buttershaw Mills
W	Darwen Temperance
W	Dewsbury Old
W	Glossop Amateur
W	Shelley United

Prizes: 1st: £30 2nd: £15 3rd: £12 4th: £8 5th: £4

IBEW has some differences from 4BR. The entire IBEW entry is reproduced below:

6 September 1869
Band Contest - Belle Vue, Manchester
The sixteenth annual brass band contest took place. The company was principally composed of excursionists from Leeds, Mossley Hill, Bacup, Bradford, Blackburn, Colne, Holmfirth, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Maple, Rotherham, Hull, Liverpool, and intermediate stations. The prizes for competition amounted to £166, and were apportioned thus: First prize £30, an E flat soprano cornet, value nine guineas, and a brass drum, presented by Mr. J. Higham, of this city, of the value of 14 guineas. Second prize, £15, a monstre bombardon, in double B flat, value £21, presented by Mr. J. Higham, and a tenor slide trombone, value £10. 10s., presented by Mr. S. Arthur Chappell, of London. Third prize, £12, a bass slide trombone, value £10 10s, and an E flat tenor horn, value £9. 9s., presented by Mr. S. Arthur Chappell, Fourth prize, £8, and a euphonium, with new proportions and four pistons, value £12 12s., presented by Mr. Higham. Fifth prize, £4, and a B flat cornet, value £9. 9s., presented by Mr. J. Higham. The instruments presented by Mr. Chappell were manufactured expressly by Antoine Courtois, of Paris. Nineteen bands were entered, and 13 competed. The conditions were for amateurs only, each band to play a selection from Meyerbeer's opera, "Le Prophete", arranged by Mr. Winterbottom, bandmaster of the Royal Marines, Woolwich. The following bands competed in the order given: Stalybridge, 13th C.R.V. band, 19 performers, Alexander Owen conductor; Longsight Steam Shed Band, 19 performers, J. Fotheringham conductor; 34th Staffordshire R.V., Wednesbury, 20 performers, A. W. Gilmer conductor; Linthwaite band, near Huddersfield, 20 performers, Edwin Swift, conductor; Stalywood Band, Stalybridge, 19 performers, William Taylor, conductor; Besses o' th' Barn Band, 19 performers, Walter Chapman, conductor; Matlock Volunteer Rifle Band, 20 performers, John Maylor, conductor; Denton Original Band, Denton, 20 performers, Alfred W. Gilmer conductor; Bacup Band, Bacup, 20 perfomers, Alfred Lord, conductor; Burnley 17th L.R.V., 19 performers, William Harrison, conductor; Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield, 20 performers, John Berry conductor; Compstall Band, Compstall, 19 performers, A W Gilmer conductor; and Black Dyke Mills, Halifax, 20 performers, Samuel Longbottom conductor. The judges were Alfred J Phasoy, bandmaster o fSt George's Rifles; Mr. Daniel Godfrey, bandmaster Grenadier Guards; and Mr. Wellington Guernsey, composer and professor of music, London. The prizes were awarded as follows: Bacup Band first; Matlock Volunteer Rifle Band, second; Burnley 17th L.R.V., third; Besses o' th' Barn Band, fourth; and Linthwaite Band, fifth.