Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	The Yorkshire Waltzes 1856
Adjudicators:	James Brown , Harry Deval , T. Hopkinson , John Oakden (Snr) , E. Short
Venue:	Zoological Gardens, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Smith's Leeds Band	Richard Smith	Attila [unknown arranger]	7
2	Black Dike Mills	Samuel Longbottom	Giulietta e Romeo [Vaccai, unknown arranger]	3
3	Batley	J. Pickering	Recitative and Chorus: 'The Heavens are Telling' from The Creation [unknown arranger]	8
	Buslingthorpe	William Healing	Overture [Healing]	1
	Leeds Joppa	Richard Smith	Ernani - cavatina [unknown arranger]	2
	Huddersfield	W. Drake	Die Schweizer Familie - overture [unknown arranger]	4
	Gawthorp	A. Jessop	Mass [Paxton]	5
	Bridlington Quay	John Acey	Le Prophete - Introduction and Grand March [unknown arranger]	6
	Fairbairn's Wellington Sax-horn	W. Witley	Lucia di Lammermoor [unknown arranger]	9
	Horsforth	W. Witley	Il Pirata [unknown arranger]	10
	Sheffield	J. C. O'Brian	Introduction and Polacca	11
	Ossett Temperance	H. Townsend	Nabucodonosor - Duetto [unknown arranger]	12
W	Boston
W	Holbeach Sax-horn
W	Hull Flax and Cotton Mill
W	Hull Kingston Cotton Mill
W	Leicester
W	Mansfield
W	Netherton
W	Newark
W	Stockton-on-Tees Union

See
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc42.htm
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc17.htm

21 bands entered. Entry fee: 10s.

Prizes:
1st: £10
2nd: £5
3rd: £3

30 June 1856
Band Contest - Zoological Gardens, Hull
A band contest took place at the Zoological Gardens, Hull, on Monday last. Smith's Leeds Band carried off the first prize; Black Dike Mill Band, the second prize; and the Batley Band, the third prize.