Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Daniel Godfrey
Venue:	Militia Store Grounds, Northampton

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Matlock	John Naylor	Herculaneum 1868
2	5th Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers	M. Scholes	I Lombardi
3	Nottingham Sax-Tuba	W. H. Norman	Attila [unknown arranger]
	Alvaston Hall	Unknown	Don Juan [unknown arranger]

1st Prize - £35
2nd Prize - £20
3rd Prize - £5
Cornet Prize - Electroplated Cornet

Matlock Band also won Cornet Prize

Reported in Northampton Herald 6th August 1870