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Results - > Majors - > British Open

1976

British Open

Date:	4 Sep 1976
Venue:	King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester
Adjudicator(s):	Sir Vivian Dunn, Eric Bravington, William Relton
Test piece:	An Epic Symphony (Percy Fletcher)

Pos	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Black Dyke Mills	Major Peter Parkes	20	195
2	Stanshawe (Bristol)	Walter Hargreaves	23	194
3	Brighouse & Rastrick	Maurice Handford	14	193
4	Cory	Bram Gay	22	192
5	Grimethorpe Colliery	Bryden Thomson	21	191
6	Wingates Temperance	Richard Evans	19	190
7	Tredegar Town	R John Childs	15	189
8	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	11	188
9	Fairey Engineering Works	George Thompson	10	187
10	GUS (Kettering)	Geoffrey Brand	5	186
	Besses o' th' Barn	Ifor James	24
	Burton Constructional (Newhall)	Ernest Woodhouse	17
	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Major H Arthur Kenney	9
	City of Coventry	Ray Farr	2
	Coventry School of Music	Leonard Pepper	18
	CWS (Manchester)	Derek Garside	7
	Desford Colliery Welfare	Albert Chappell	4
	Ever Ready (GB)	George Thompson	16
	Fodens Motor Works	James Scott	13
	Hammonds Sauce Works	Geoffrey Whitham	3
	Patchogue Plymouth	Peter Kitson	8
	RHP (Newark)	Sqd Ldr Denzil Stephens	12
	Templemore	Jack Burch	6
	Thoresby Colliery Welfare (DOSCO)	William Lippeatt	25
	Woodfalls	Courtney Bosanko	1