Format:	Other
Adjudicators:	E. Hanson , F. M. Ward
Venue:	Great Northern Railway Hotel, Peterborough

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Farnley Ironworks	C. Ingledew
2	20th West Riding Yorkshire Volunteer	G. F. Birkenshaw
3	South Yorkshire Railway Company (Mexbrough)	T. Sharpe
4	Thrapston Nene Side Iron Works	R. Smith
5	Whittlesea	Thomas Baker
	6th Cambridgeshire Volunteer Rifle Corps	J. Skelding
	Kettering	C. Patrick
	Oakham	William Wimperis
	Raunds	William Colson
W	Baildon

Prizes: £15, £8, £4, £2, £1

Reported in Northampton Herald 7th September 1861

Cornet prize: Joseph Hyde, leader of the Doncaster Volunteers [20th WY] Band, who was only 14 at the time.