Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Diadem of Gold 1953
Adjudicators:	William Relton
Venue:	Molinnis Park, Bugle, Cornwall, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Soundwell	Arthur Kenney	188
2	St. Dennis	Eddie J. Williams	187
3	Camborne Town	Bernard Bygrave	186
4	St. Austell	Fred J. Roberts	184
5	Mount Charles	William Maginn	182
6	Bugle Silver	Hugh Camps	181
	Yorkley Onward	Brian Howard

WEBF website lists Bude rather than Bugle, but H. Camps was the Bugle conductor at this time, and Bugle seems a more likely band to have been entered in Class A at this time.

'Hymn to Music' - Dudley Buck:
1 St. Dennis, 90
2 St. Austell, 89
3 Soundwell, 88
4 Camborne, 86
5 Mount Charles, 84
6 Bugle, 83

Best Player:
1 Jim Bell, Soundwell
2 Peter Minear, St. Dennis
3 Cliff Sayers, Soundwell

Best Set of Basses
St. Austell
Best Solo Horn
Robert Cook - Camborne
A. R. Trudgian Youth Awards
Pat Hobba
Phillip Penglaze

Deportment (Class D, judge WO A. B. Sparkes):
1 Camborne
2 Bideford (Class C)