Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Last Judgement [arr. Round] 1879
Adjudicators:	Joseph Fawcett
Venue:	Trawden, Colne, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Stalybridge	Alexander Owen	10
2	Great Horton	George Fred Birkenshaw	3
3	Earby	George Fred Birkenshaw	7
4	Todmorden	Edwin Swift	12
5	Oldham Rifles	Alexander Owen	15
	Bury Borough	Robert Jackson	1
	Batley Victoria Temperance	R. Clayton	2
	Heywood Borough	William Wood	4
	Heap Bridge	John Peers	5
	Bentham	T. J. Bellingham	6
	Bacup Borough	John Lord	8
	Copley Mills	James Simpson	9
	Goodshaw Fold	Edwin Swift	11
	Heptonstall	Alexander Owen	13
	Boarshurst	Alexander Owen	14
	Heywood Rifles	John Gladney	16
	Hebden Bridge	John Gladney	17
W	Burnley Borough
W	Cleckheaton
W	Haggate
W	Kingston Mills
W	Leyland Subscription
W	Middleton Public
W	Morley

24 bands entered, 17 competed.
Prizes: £16 and £26 bombardon, £10 and 9 guinea cornet, £6 and 7 guinea trombone, £4, £2.
18th annual contest.
The following toothsome piece of gossip, extracted from a recent issue of Truth, will afford a fund of amusement to your readers in the Trawden district: - The gravedigger of Trawden, Lancashire, after refreshing himself at the village inn, went to the churchyard to pursue his vocation. Being overcome by drowsiness, he lay down in the grave he had dug, and was soon fast asleep. There was a brass band contest that day in the village. The instruments sounded suddenly and awakened the sexton. Finding himself in the grave, he imagined he heard the trumpet sound for the general resurrection. He hastened to rise. Looking round, expecting other graves to give up their dead, and seeing nobody but himself, he exclaimed, "It's a poor show for Trawden".