Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Ancient Temple 1970
Adjudicators:	Cyril B. Carter
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Empress Ballroom), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Benwhat Silver	Enoch Jackson	11	186
2	Murton Colliery	Keith MacDonald	10	184
3	Whitwell Miners	J. D. Wheatley	12	183
4	Armthorpe High School	Haydn Griffiths	5	182
5	Grange Moor	G. Field	1	180
6	Ystradgynlais	Melvin White	8	178
	Mainsforth Colliery & Tursdale Works	Barry Holden	2
	Burradon Colliery	T. Percy	3
	Point of Ayr Colliery	G. Lewis	4
	Shirebrook Miners	Mark Carter	6
	Clipstone Colliery	Reginald Mason	7
	Cowpen & Crofton	J. J. Lee	9
	Glynneath	D. V. Jones	13
W	Gresford Colliery

Gresford not listed in programme.
13 bands competed.
12th annual contest