Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Love in a Mist 1896
Adjudicators:	A. D. Keate
Venue:	Foxdenton Hall, Middleton, Manchester

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	St. John's Failsworth	W. H. Ellwood	15
1	Heaton Mersey Sunday School	John Henry White	18
3	St. James Gorton	Thomas German	14
4	North East Manchester	John Henry White	5
	Hollingworth and Failsworth	J. L. Fowden	1
	Brinscall and Withnell Subscription	John Ainsworth	2
	All Saints	Unknown	3
	Bradshaw	William Wood	4
	Great Bridgewater Street Mission	Christopher Smith	6
	Burnage	Alfred Hulme	7
	Levenshulme	Alfred Hulme	8
	Ramsbottom Baptists	William Enoch Holt	9
	Stubbins Vale	W. Hanson	10
	L. and Y. Loco Works	R. Millington	11
	Standish Subscription	William Rimmer	12
	St. George's Pendleton	Fred Durham	13
	Dob Lane Sunday School	John Henry White	16
	Eccleston	Robert Rimmer	17
W	Atherton Temperance
W	Glodwick

Prizes: £7, £5, £3, £2
18 bands competed