Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Rising Generation 1971
Adjudicators:	William Relton
Venue:	St. Bede's School, Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Fishburn Colliery Welfare	James Foxcroft	181
2	Mainsforth Colliery	William Partington	180
3	North Skelton and District	Matt Pope	178
	Langley Park Colliery	Barry Holden
	Muker Silver	F. W. Woodhall
	Murton Colliery	William Atkinson
	Shildon British Railways	A. Bagley
	South Bank Silver	T. Barraclough
	Sunderland Transport	S. Pedersen
	Teesside Constabulary	S. Peacock
	Thornley Public	A. Little

11 bands competed.