North West Area (Championship Section) - 1st Apr 1979

Test Piece:	Variations for Brass Band [Vaughan Williams] - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Adjudicators:	Denzil Stephens, Geoffrey Brand
Venue:	Guild Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

	North West Area (Second Section) 1979
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Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Besses o' th' Barn	Roy Newsome	11	190
2	Wingates Temperance Band	Dennis Wilby	4	188
3	Fairey Engineering Band	Walter B. Hargreaves	13	187
4	Goodshaw Band	Kevin Bolton	5	186
5	Foden Motor Works Band	James Scott	7	184
6	CWS	Maurice Handford	3	183
7	East Lancs Paper Group Band	Malcolm Brownbill	12
8	Rochdale Band	David Loukes	1
9	Lancashire Constabulary Band	Harry Bentham	2
10	Vickers Barrow Works Band	Barry Thompson	8
11	Mirrlees Works Band	Kenneth Dennison	6
11	Stalybridge Old Band	Geoffrey Whitham	9
13	Edge Hill	Robert Dean	10

13 bands competed.