Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Love in a Mist 1896
Adjudicators:	Joseph Owen Shepherd
Venue:	Bamber Bridge, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Farington Mills	Thomas Snape	15
2	Blackburn Ragged School	Robert Rimmer	13
3	Great Harwood Subscription	Robert Rimmer	3
4	Kirkham Subscription	Robert Rimmer	9
5	Brinscall and Withnell	John Ainsworth	6
	North Ashton	William Enoch Holt	1
	Nazebottom Temperance	Walter Mitchell	2
	Standish Subscription	John Rutter	4
	Eccleston Subscription	Robert Rimmer	5
	Freckleton Subscription	Robert Rimmer	7
	St. Anne's-on-Sea	Walter George Chapman	8
	Marshside Temperance	Robert Rimmer	10
	Brindle Subscription	William Enoch Holt	11
	Withnell Fold	William Enoch Holt	12
	Bartons Preston	E. Barton	14
	Horwich Old	William Peatfield	16

Prizes: £10, £6, £4, £2, £1
16 bands competed