Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Call of the Sea 1953
Adjudicators:	Henry Geehl
Venue:	Belle Vue (Coronation Ballroom), Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Wharncliffe Silkstone	Edmund Hoole	12	190
2	Cheetham Hill Public	Fred Bonelli	5	180
3	Eckington United	Harold Barker	1	175
4	Staveley Works	William Knight	9	170
5	Bradford Victoria	Tom Atkinson	18	165
6	Marston Valley Brick Works	George Crossland	10	160
	City of Leicester Constabulary	Charles Albert Anderson	2
	Wheatley Hill Colliery	W. F. Buckley	3
	Lockwood	J. E. Pearson	4
	Mirrlees Works	Jack Atherton	6
	Pleasley Colliery	H. Eggleshaw	7
	Workington Town	W. Petre	8
	Head Wrightson Works	Cliff Midgley	11
	Yorkshire Main Colliery	J. Allsopp	13
	Agnes Street Temperance	Ernest Ruddock	14
	Dobcross Prize	Jimmy Platt	15
	Farnworth Old	Wright Hurst	16
	Gainsborough Britannia Works	Harvey Nuttall	17
W	Chapel en le Frith
W	Llay Welfare Inst.