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Keighley Contest

Sat 05 Sep 1863



Format: Other
Adjudicators: William Jackson
Venue: Highfield Lane, Keighley

Position Band Conductor
1 Craven Amateur (Silsden) Unknown
2 Merrall's (Springhead Haworth) Unknown
3 Crosshills Unknown
4 Bingley Rifle Unknown

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The temperance brass band and solo contest took place in two fields in Highfield lane, Keighley. The judge was Mr. Wm, Jackson, of Bradford. The prizes were awarded as follows: Brass band contest - 1st prize, £10, Craven Amateur, Silsden; second prize, £6 and a cornet value £5 5s. (presented by Mr; Higham, of Manchester, to the best band contesting which had never won a prize at any previous contest), Merrall's, Springhead, Haworth; third prize, £4, Crosshills; fourth prize, £2, Bingley Rifle. In the solo contests, a flugal horn, value £13 13s, was presented by the Keighley Temperance Society to Mr. Robert Stephenson, of Bingley, for showing the best taste in the contest; a cornet, value £8 8s., was also presented by Mr. Besson, of London, to Mr. H. Jackson, of Kirkstall, for taste and execution.





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