Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Tannhäuser [unknown arranger]
Adjudicators:	James Ord Hume
Venue:	Wellingborough, Northants

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Kettering Rifles	Alexander Owen	1
2	Rushden Temperance	Alexander Owen	2
3	Peterborough Borough	H. N. Brown	5
4	Earl's Barton Old	John Gladney	4
5	Thrapston Town	Walter Reynolds	3

County Challenge Cup Contest
Organised by Wellingborough Town Silver Band
Reported in Northampton Herald, 31st July 1897
5 bands competed