Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Glastonbury 1953
Adjudicators:	Charles Telfer
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Empress Ballroom), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Clayton West	Charlie Westerby	6	189
2	Aber-Blaengwynfi Workmens	Evan Richards	5	186
3	Calverton Colliery	Norman Brown	7	185
4	Ifton Colliery	Eric Foster	4	184
	Shotton Colliery	W. H. Gelson	1
	Whitwell Colliery	J. Anderson	2
	Old Silkstone	G. E. Mann	3
	Wheatley Hill Colliery	Derek Scollard	8
	Wallsend Rising Sun Colliery	R. A. Fairbairn	9
	Crooke & Kirkless Welfare	W. Moss	10

6th annual contest