Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Richard Stead
Venue:	Althorp Park, Northamptonshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Kettering Town	John Gladney	Stiffelio [arr. Gladney] 1874
2	Rushden Temperance Silver Prize	George F. Birkinshaw	Stiffelio [unknown arranger]
3	Earls Barton Old	John King Skinner	The Bohemian Girl [unknown arranger]
	Earls Barton Britannia	Walter Reynolds	Lyric Garland 1885
	Long Buckby Sanders Independence	John King Skinner	Hours of Beauty 1883
	Rushden National	W. Bridgeford	Stiffelio [unknown arranger]

Organsied by Northampton Early Closing Association
Reported in Northampton Herald, 12th July 1890
Prizes: £20, £10, £5.
6 bands competed