Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Gladney] 1869
Adjudicators:	John Gladney Jnr , Joseph Owen Shepherd
Venue:	Marine Park, Southport

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Heywood Old	Rufus Fletcher	13
2	Irwell Bank	Alexander Owen	11
3	Eagley	Edwin Swift	8
4	Pendleton Old	William Rimmer	3
5	Wingates Temperance	William Rimmer	7
6	Tyldesley Old	Thomas German	5
	Gossage's (Widnes)	John James Brady	1
	Dowlais Town	E. B. Nash	2
	L. & Y. Railway Loco'	R. Millington	4
	Farnworth Old	James Clarke Wright	6
	Widnes Subscription	William Rimmer	9
	Crooke	Fred Durham	10
	Skelmersdale Temperance	William Rimmer	12
	Rotherham Temperance	Fenton Renshaw	14
	Pemberton Old	William Rimmer	15
	Bolton Borough	William Wood	16
	Atherton Public	Fred Durham	17
	Wigan Rifles	William Halliwell	18

Prizes: £20, £15, £10, £7, £5, £3
28 bands entered, 18 competed