Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Thomas Moore
Venue:	Middleton House Park, Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Cleveland Steel Works	Unknown
2	West Hartlepool Borough	S. Inglesant
3	Murton Colliery	Edward Vest
4	Cornsay Colliery	Bryce Gordon
5	Sunderland East End	John Mackintosh
6	Cockfield	Unknown

1st prize £10.
2nd prize £6.
3rd prize £4.
4th prize £3.
5th prize £2.
March contest 1st (£1) Cleveland Steel Works, 2nd West Hartlepool Borough.
6 bands competed.

Open to bands which had not won a prize of over £10 in 1898 or 1899