Format:	Other
Test Piece:	La Favorita [arr. Round] 1898
Adjudicators:	Joseph Owen Shepherd
Venue:	Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Pemberton Old	William Rimmer	1
2	Wednesbury Crown Tube	Thomas German	3
3	Prince's End Temperance	J. W. Thomas	2
	Blaina Lancaster	Unknown
	Oak Alyn	Unknown
	Silverdale	Unknown
	Willenhall	Unknown
	Gossage's (Widnes)	John James Brady	4

7 bands competed

Prizes: £18, £10, £5

March contest: 1. Pemberton Old, 2. Wednesbury Crown Tube

Greenfields Horticultural Society Exhibition

A temporary stand, which had been erected, collapsed as the Silverdale Band had commenced to play. The members fell in a heap mixed up with their instrument, music stands and fallen timber. Most of the men were able to extricate themselves with little injury, but one man, the solo trombone player, Frank Washington, an engine driver, was insensible when released, and died in the infirmary half-an-hour afterwards.