Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Charles Godfrey
Venue:	Lincoln Arboretum, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Black Dyke Mills	Alexander Owen	Oberon [arr. Owen] 1898	5
2	Stalybridge Old	John Gladney	Weber Fantasia [arr. Gladney]	1
3	Gainsborough Rifles	William Belcher	Attila [arr. Round]	4
	Britannia Iron Works	J. H. Crabtree	William Tell [unknown arranger]	2
	Lincoln Rifles	William Lilley	I Lombardi	3
	Sutton-in-Ashfield Old Harmonic	Gershon Hall	Les Huguenots [arr. Godfrey] 1906	6

Prizes: £25, £15, £10
Fete for the Lincoln district of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows
Result given in Brass Band News September 1882 shows Gainsborough Brittania as 3rd prize - result corrected to Gainsborough Rifles in October issue.(dutchy)
8 bands entered, 6 competed