Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Harry Heyes
Venue:	Co-operative Hall, Leigh, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Haigh Prize	Harry Bentham	Labour and Love 1913	10	194
2	Tyldesley	Fred Martland		15	192
3	Houghton Main Colliery	Winston Moore	Songs of England (Scholes)	12	191
4	Skelmanthorpe	Willie Kaye		1	188
	Bolton Borough	S. Evans	Indian Summer 1950	2
	Lindley	Peter Wadsworth		3
	Lowton Silver	G. Fahey		4
	Automatic Telephone Works	Norman Jones	Recollections of Balfe	5
	Hindley Subscription	Fred Whittle	Call of the Sea 1953	6	166
	Redgate Boys Band	Leo Murphy	Coriolanus 1914	7
	Stretford Old	H. Aldcroft		8
	North Ashton	Leslie Naylor	Lorenzo 1928	9
	Skelmersdale Temperance	William Lyon		11
	Irlam Public	E. Bradshaw	La Favorita	14
	Golborne	James Mort		16	173
	Coppull	J. Hart		17
	Marsden Silver	Stuart Garside	Hymn to Music	18
W	Tintwistle Public			13

17 bands competed.
Prizes - 1st £25 and cup, 2nd £12 and cup, 3rd £8 and shield, 4th £3 and cup.