Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Love in a Mist 1896
Adjudicators:	A. D. Keate
Venue:	Patricroft, Eccles, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Tyldesley Temperance	Edward Gittins	8
2	Hollingworth	James Holloway	10
3	Great Ancoats Mission	J. H. Baxter	1
4	Walkden United	Edward Gittins	7
	Broughton Public	S. Sanderson	2
	St. John's Irlam o'th'Height	E. Gittins	3
	Ardwick Scottish	A. Powell	4
	Rawtenstall Temperance	William Pollard	5
	Burnage	Alfred Hulme	6
	Great Bridgewater Street	W. Race	9

10 bands competed.