Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Bohemian Girl [arr. Round] 1886
Adjudicators:	Joseph Gaggs
Venue:	Zoological Gardens, Eastham, Wirral

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Besses o' th' Barn	Alexander Owen	3
2	Oldham Rifle	Alexander Owen	8
3	Kingston Mills	John Gladney	7
4	Honley	John Gladney	10
5	Wyke Old	George Fred Birkenshaw	1
5	Southport Rifles	Thomas Rimmer	2
6	Knutton Forge	Joseph Lewis	4
	Leyland	James Lord	5
	Platt Bridge	John Makin	6
	Hanley Mission	George Turner	9
	Bolton Borough	J. Longstaff	11
	High Crompton	J. Hanson	12
W	1st Staffordshire Artillery
W	Copley Mills
W	Great Horton
W	Heywood Borough
W	Leeds Forge
W	Oats Royd Mills
W	Rochdale Amateur
W	Rothwell Temperance
W	St. Stephens Kearsley
W	Widnes Soap Works

Prizes - 1st £20, 2nd £14, 3rd £8, 4th £5, 5th £3.
Unsucessful bands given £1 each towards expenses.
Best trombone - Knutton Forge.
Contest originally planned for August 1885 but was abandoned.
22 bands entered, 12 competed