Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Excelsior [Round] 1888
Adjudicators:	John North(1800s)
Venue:	Grantham Park, Rastrick

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Morley Borough	John Gladney	19
2	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift	17
3	Oats Royd Mills	William Heap	6
4	Norland	George Raine	12
5	Rochdale Old	Alexander Owen	22
	Rothwell Temperance	George F. Birkinshaw	1
	Huddersfield Rifles	George Raine	2
	Great Horton	George F. Birkinshaw	3
	Gawthorpe Victoria	Benjamin Denton Jackson	4
	Lindley	Edwin Swift	5
	Brighouse Temperance	Walter Atkinson	7
	Denby Dale	Fenton Renshaw	8
	Clitheroe	Alexander Owen	9
	Dewsbury Old	B. Brooke	10
	Cleckheaton Victoria	Hugh Whitham	11
	Bacup Change	Alexander Owen	13
	Dewsbury Temperance	William Holdsworth	14
	Daisy Hill Subscription	Tom Dean	15
	Greetland and West Vale	Thomas Wheelwright	16
	Outlane	J. Haigh	18
	Rochdale Public	Thomas Young	20
	Batley Temperance	Hugh Whitham	21
	Copley Mills	Walter Atkinson	23
	Sowerby Bridge Subscription	Walter Atkinson	24
	Batley Old	Benjamin Denton Jackson	25
	Boarshurst	Alexander Owen	26

Prizes - 1st £16, 2nd £9, 3rd £6, 4th £3, 5th £1.
March contest 1st (£2) Clitheroe, 2nd (£1) Brighouse Temperance.
Adjudicators remarks in Brass Band News June 1889 - No.15 - 'Very poor. Cannot write remarks.'
29 bands entered, 26 bands competed.
1st annual contest organised by Elland Upper Edge Band.