Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Contest Day 1961
Adjudicators:	Walter Barrow Hargreaves
Venue:	King George's Hall, Blackburn

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Rochdale Borough Youth	Frank Mallinson	12	176
2	Maryport Albion Silver	R. Martin	1	174
3	Norman Memorial	N. Parkinson	16	172
4	Haydock Prize	Charles Fradley	13	171
5	Ulverston Town	Grenville Huckerby	7	170
	Lower Ince Temperance	Bill Woods	2
	Darwen and Hoddlesden	Albert Walmsley	3
	Crooke Miners Welfare	Harry Bentham	4
	Whitworth Vale & Healey	Harry Cheshire	5
	Heywood Old	Harold Smith	6
	Newtown Silver	J. H. Leach	8
	Skelmersdale Temperance Prize	William Lyon	9
	Frodsham Silver	E. Corker	10
	Earby Prize	E. Gregory	11
	Knutsford & Alderley	J. Burgess	14
	Poulton-le-Fylde Silver	W. E. Ashton	15
	Helmshore Prize	C. Entwistle	17
	Blackley Prize	G. H. Cheshire	18
W	Flookburgh Silver
W	Llandudno Town
W	Prestwich Borough

21 bands entered, 18 bands competed.