Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Richard Stead
Venue:	West Stanley, County Durham

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Besses o' th' Barn	Alexander Owen	Die Walküre 1898	7
2	Wyke Temperance	Edwin Swift	Bayreuth	3
3	West Hartlepool Operatic	Alexander Owen	Die Walküre 1898	9
4	Tanfield Lea	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works	1
5	Consett Iron Works	William Holdsworth	Beethoven [arr. Round] 1889	8
6	South Derwent	R. H. Cooper	Faust [Berlioz, unknown arranger]	5
7	Hartlepool Temperance	William Holdsworth	Rossini's Works	6
8	Backworth Institute	William Holdsworth	Beethoven [arr. Round] 1889	2
9	South Shields Garibaldi	J. S. Barrow	Tannhäuser [unknown arranger]	4
W	Oldham Rifles

Prizes: £40, £30, £20, £14, £9, £7, £5, £3, £2
9 bands competed