Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Glastonbury 1953
Adjudicators:	Denis Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue (Exhibition Hall), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Hepworth Silver Prize	George Kaye	7	188
2	Greenway Moor Prize	Edward Gray	13	184
3	Mirrlees Works	Norman Ashcroft	16	183
4	Rawmarsh Prize	Edmund Hoole	11	181
	Boarshurst Silver	Harry Cheshire
	Dodworth Miners Welfare	Stanley O'Connor
	Elsecar Main Colliery	P. V. Lewis
	Gomersal Mills Prize	Norman Hudson
	Knutsford and Alderley	J. Burgess
	Laganvale	R. Swann
	Marsden Silver Prize	John Harrison
	Shirley Silver	John Yard
	Stanton Ironworks	Albert Lunn
	Street Fold Silver Prize	Robert Dootson
	Thurlstone Brass	Eric Crossley
	Upton Colliery Workpeoples	Harry Tomkins
	Whitworth Vale and Healey	Harry Cheshire

17 bands competed