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Enderby Jackson's 'Great National Contest' (Final)

Tue 28 Jul 1863



Format: Test Piece Contest
Test Piece: La Forza del Destino [arr. Smythe] 1863
Adjudicators: Mr. Basquit , T. Coward , Charles (sr) Godfrey , E. Hanson , Mr. Hurst , James Smythe
Venue: Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, County of London, England, UK

Position Band Conductor
1 Blandford M. R. Eyers
2 Dewsbury Old John Peel
3 Matlock Bath James Froome
4 Darlington H. Hoggett
10th Tower Hamlets Unknown
11th Staffordshire Unknown
15th Durham Unknown
1st Newcastle-on-Tyne Unknown
1st Sussex (Brighton) William Devin
1st West York (Pudsey) Unknown
20th Durham Unknown
25th Kent Unknown
30th Middlesex (Ealing) Unknown
36th Middlesex Unknown
37th West York Unknown
3rd Dorset (Bridport) Unknown
6th Sussex Unknown
8th Essex Unknown
Albion Mills Unknown
Buttershaw Mills Unknown
Civil Service (21st Middlesex) Unknown
Colchester Town Unknown
Compstall Unknown
Doncaster V.R.C. Unknown
Eagley Unknown
Gawthorp Unknown
Halliwell Jubilee Unknown
Kirkburton Temperance Unknown
Kirkstall Unknown
Leyburn Unknown
Manchester and Sheffield Railway Co. Loco. Dep. Unknown
Meltham Mills Unknown
Messrs. Parritt and Withams (Armley) Unknown
New Holland Unknown
Northallerton Young Men's Temperance Unknown
Norwood United Unknown
Rothwell Sax Horn Unknown
Royal Park (Leeds) Unknown
South Hetton Unknown
Springhead Shipley Unknown
United Shelley Unknown
V.R.C. (London) Unknown
Victoria (Kirkburton) Unknown
Victoria (Wolverhampton) Unknown
West Hartlepool Operatic Unknown
W 4th L.V.R.C. (Bacup)

Sources:
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (London, England), Sunday, August 2, 1863; Issue 1080.
The Era (London, England), Sunday, August 2, 1863; Issue 1297.
"The Brass Band Movement", Russell & Eliot, 1936

Also see
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/cultures-of-brass/british-brass-band/crystal_palace_results.pdf
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc4286.htm

44 bands entered, 21 played.

A two-stage contest. The qualifying stage divided the 21 bands into three separate contests, adjudicated by 2 judges each (1 - Hurst and Hanson; 2 - Smythe and Godfrey; 3 - Basquit and Coward). The final stage comprised 12 bands - Brighton, Civil Service, Albion Mills, Blandford, Kirkstall, Matlock, Leyburn, Compstall, Dewsbury, Darlington, Doncaster, and Kirkburton.

There appears to be some confusion between sources; Darlington is not listed in the full list of entries - but is presumably a regimental band, either the 15th or 20th Durham. In the absence of more information, both forms are listed for now.

Prizes:
1st: £30, "together with free gift of superb massive cup, worked in aluminium gold, oxydised and burnished, ornamented with appropriate devices, for bandmaster; also a magnificent champion circular contre bass, in double B fiat, with three rotary cylinders, splendidly electroplated; manufactured and presented by the firm of Messrs. Henry Distin, and Co. military musical instrument makers".
2nd: £20
3rd: £15
4th: £10

Best band in the counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, or Hampshire: £10; Brighton (1st Sussex).

Solo prizes -
Cornet: Robert de Lacy (Leyburn Band)
Baritone horn: Thomas Hunt (Blandford Band)





Printed from https://brassbandresults.co.uk/