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Newcastle Contest

Sat 27 Jun 1931



Format: Test Piece Contest
Test Piece: La Favorita
Adjudicators: Herbert Bennett
Venue: Cricket Field, Bath Road, Newcastle

Position Band Conductor
1 Brancepeth Colliery J. B. Wright
2 Wallsend Colliery Jack Boddice
3 Urpeth Colliery James Young
4 Middlesbrough Borough James Wilson
5 Backworth Colliery George Hawkins
St. Hilda Colliery (New) Unknown

14 bands competed

Prizes 1st £20 and cup, 2nd £14 and shield, 3rd £8, 4th £5, 5th £2.

March contest 1st (£2) Hetton Silver, 2nd(£1) Brancepeth.

Deportment: 1. St Hilda, 2. Hetton

Best trombone and euphonium - Wallsend, best cornet and horn - Brancepeth.

Sponsored by Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

Source The Musical Progress and Mail August 1931.





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