Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	I Puritani [arr. Godfrey] 1886
Adjudicators:	Henry Amers , Charles Godfrey
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Glossop Volunteers	Thomas German	10
2	Heywood Rifles	John Gladney	15
3	Rochdale Amateur	Edwin Swift	1
4	St. James Gorton	Joseph Gaggs	18
5	Lindley	Edwin Swift	4
	Droylsden Village	J. Wadsworth	2
	Chadderton	James Robinson	3
	Rushden Temperance	George Frederick Birkinshaw	5
	Thorncliffe Colliery	Joseph Boothroyd	6
	Radcliffe Public	Robert Jackson	7
	Derby United	Alfred R. Seddon	8
	South Notts Temperance	John Gladney	9
	Prestwich	Robert Jackson	11
	Platting Public	John Holt	12
	M.S.& L. Railway Gorton	Joseph Gaggs	14
	Hanley Mission	George Turner	16
	Middleton Public	Edwin Swift	17
	Tyldesley	Richard Marsden	19
D	Bury Borough		13

Prizes: £25, £20, £15, £12, £8
1st annual contest
Open to any band which had not won a prize at any of the September Belle Vue contests during the last 4 years.
40 bands entered, only 20 were accepted to compete.
Bury Borough disqualified for breach of rules.