Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Tam O'Shanter's Ride [Wright] 1956
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Brand , Frank Wright
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Empress Ballroom), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	10	189
2	Lochgelly Public Brass Band	Robert Oughton	9	186
3	Markham and District Colliery Silver Band	Don Hendy	3	184
4	Carlton Main	Jack Atherton	2	182
	Tredegar Workmen	Cornelius Buckley	1
	Cresswell Colliery	Denis Smith	4
	Ashington Colliery	J. J. Stobbs	5
	Craghead Colliery	Eric Cunningham	6
	Harton and Westoe Colliery	Jack Nightingale	7
	Easington Colliery	Cecil Peacock	8
	Cowpen and Crofton	John Carr	11

11 bands competed.
7th annual contest.