Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Sam Cope
Venue:	Leighton Buzzard

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Bedford Town	Jeremiah Holdsworth	Cinq Mars [arr. Round] 1887	4	94
2	Hanslope Excelsior	Harry Sharpe	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Round] 1895	6	68
3	Fenny Stratford Town	W. Goodger	Gems of Columbia 1896	3	56
3	Dunstable Excelsior	John Thomas Ogden	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Round] 1895	5	56
5	Luton Town	Randolph Ryan	Honoria	1	54
6	Leighton Excelsior	Harry Sharpe	The Bohemian Girl [arr. Round] 1886	2	40

6 bands competed
Prizes: £12, £8, £4
Reported in Northampton Herald 15th August 1896