Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	English Folk Song Suite 1956
Adjudicators:	William A. Scholes
Venue:	City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Esh Colliery Welfare Band	Ray White	4	174
2	Haltwhistle Old	W. S. Bond	5	171
3	Cowpen and Crofton	John Carr	8	170
	Brancepeth Colliery	J. W. Ainsley	1
	Chopwell Colliery	Howard Wright	2
	Brandon Colliery	Gilbert Brown	3
	Murton Colliery	H. Nicol	6
	Whitworth and Spennymoor	Harold Smith	7

8 bands competed.