CONTEST RESULTS

Rothmans' Brass in Concert

Date: 15 Nov 1981
Venue: Beehive Centre, Darlington
Music Adjudicator(s): Lt Col George Evans, Walter Hargreaves
Entertainment Adjudicator(s): Les Archer, Brian Broadbent, Maurice Hennis
Soloist Adjudicator(s): Gordon Higginbottom

Pos Band Conductor Draw Music Ent Total
1 Grimethorpe Colliery Ray Farr 12 195 56.5 251.5 Flag
2 Yorkshire Imperial Metals John Pryce-Jones 5 193 55.0 248.0 Flag
3 Desford Colliery Howard Snell 1 188 56.0 244.0 Flag
4 Hammonds Sauce Works Geoffrey Whitham 9 185 56.0 241.0 Flag
5 Cory Denzil Stephens 8 186 52.5 238.5 Flag
6 City of Coventry Major Peter Parkes 4 183 52.0 235.0 Flag
7 Berec (Ever Ready) Major H Arthur Kenney 11 182 52.5 234.5 Flag
7 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Kevin Bolton 3 182 52.5 234.5 Flag
9 Besses o' th' Barn Alec Evans 10 183 50.0 233.0 Flag
10 Whitburn Burgh Major Peter Parkes 7 181 50.5 231.5 Flag
11 CWS (Manchester) Capt Frank Renton 2 181 48.0 229.0 Flag
12 Templemore Jack Burch 6 176 47.0 223.0 Flag

Best entertainment and presentation: Grimethorpe Colliery

Best performance of set piece: Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Best soloist: Billy Millar (euphonium, Hammonds Sauce Works) playing Rule Britannia

Each band included a set test piece in their programme - North-East Fantasy (Gavin Smith)