Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Hallelujah Chorus [arr. Round] 1880
Adjudicators:	Joseph Gaggs
Venue:	Kearsley Moor, Kearsley, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Oldham Rifles	Alexander Owen		14
2	Radcliffe Old	Alexander Owen		10
3	1st V.B.L. Fusiliers (Heywood)	John Peers		13
4	Southport Rifles	Harry Round		1
5	Rochdale Amateur	Edwin Swift		25
6	Littleborough	Edwin Swift		26
	Farnworth Amateur	Ben Wallwork		2
	Irwell Bank	Harry L. Holding		3
	Mossley	Alexander Owen		4
	Pendleton	James Frost		5
	Bradford Postmen	James Frost		6
	Middleton Perseverance	George Frederick Birkinshaw		7
	3rd L.A.V.(Chorley)	George Pressler		8
	New Hall Hey	Isaac Marsden		9
	Wingates Temperance	W. Pendlebury		11
	Swinton	Thomas Goodier		12
	Farnworth	William Range		15
	Besses o' th' Barn	George Frederick Birkinshaw		16
	Blackrod Temperance	Harry Round		17
	Heap Bridge Mills	John Peers		18
	Pendlebury	W. Davies		19
	Bradshaw	George Frederick Birkinshaw		20
	Hebden	George Frederick Birkinshaw		21
	Newchurch	N. Ermenie Goodall		22
	Hopwood United Methodist	H. Jewell		23
	Bury Borough	Robert Jackson		24
	St. James (Heywood)	Rufus Fletcher		27
	St. James's Tyldesley	Robert Welch		28
	Kingston Mills	Harry L. Holding		29

Promoted by the St. Stephen's Brass Band - Thirty bands had entered, and twenty-nine (comprising seven hundred performers) competed.
2nd annual contest