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British Open

Sat 05 Sep 1964



Format: Test Piece Contest
Test Piece: Lorenzo 1928
Adjudicators: Tom Atkinson , Alex Mortimer , Drake Rimmer
Venue: Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Foden Motor Works Rex Mortimer 18 192
2 Lindley Leonard Lamb 23 190
3 Morris Motors Cliff Edmunds 10 188
4 Brighouse & Rastrick Walter Barrow Hargreaves 11 185
5 GUS Stanley Boddington 20 184
6 Besses o' th' Barn Frank Bryce 16 182
7 Wingates Temperance Hugh Parry 6
8 Crossley's Carpets John Harrison 7
9 Markham Main Haydn Griffiths 17
10 Grimethorpe Colliery George Thompson 5
11 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Jack Atherton 4
12 Templemore Alfred Bell 22
13 Black Dyke Mills Major Cecil Harry Jaeger 12
14 Cammell Laird Rex Mortimer 9
16 Ransome & Marles Dennis Masters 8
17 Hoggarths Denis Smith 19
22 West Bromwich Borough G. A. Morris 21
23 Edge Hill William Yates 15
Slaithwaite Roy Newsome 1
Rushden Temperance Ernest Denton 2
Luton Albert Coupe 3
Yorkshire Imperial Andrew Owenson 13
St. Dennis Eddie J. Williams 14

Prizes:

1st: 200 plus 2,000 Gold Trophy plus the W.D. & H.O. Wills Cup.
2nd: 125 plus The Frank Parker Memorial Cup.
3rd: 100
4th: 60
5th: 40
6th: 25

Each member of the winning band received engraved certificates.
The winning conductor received an engraved cigarette casket.
The Iles Medal was presented to Walter Hargreaves.
Positions 7 onwards taken from programme found at Brass Band Archive, Wigan. (DAVE HOLLAND)





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