Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Hours of Beauty 1883
Adjudicators:	T. E. Embury
Venue:	Radcliffe Football Club

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Todmorden Old	Edwin Swift		11
2	Mossley	Alexander Owen		5
3	Rochdale Amateurs	Edwin Swift		1
4	Besses o' th' Barn	George Fred Birkenshaw		6
5	Colne	George Fred Birkenshaw		10
	Irwell Springs	James Lord		2
	Bury	Robert Jackson		3
	Platting Public	Thomas Hamer		4
	Middleton Perseverance	George Fred Birkenshaw		7
	Unsworth	T. Chadwick		8
	Heywood Borough	William Wood		9
	High Crompton	H. W. Dowdall		12

Prizes: £12, £7, £4, £2, £1
Quickstep prize won by Heywood.
12 bands competed.
1st annual contest promoted by Radcliffe Old Band.