CONTEST RESULTS

1996

British Open

Date:	7 Sep 1996
Venue:	Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Adjudicator(s):	Bram Gay, James Scott, John Wallace
Test piece:	The Severn Suite (Edward Elgar arr Bram Gay)

Pos	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Marple	Garry E Cutt	22	196
2	Tredegar Town	Nicholas J Childs	9	194
3	BNFL	Richard Evans	13	193
4	Williams Fairey	James Gourlay	10	192
5	Britannia Building Society	Phillip McCann	3	190
6	Yorkshire Building Society	David King	19	189
7	Grimethorpe Colliery	Major Peter Parkes	20
8	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	15
9	Wingates	Geoffrey Whitham	8
10	UES Stocksbridge Engineering	Roy Newsome	21
11	Sellers Engineering	Alan Morrison	2
12	Sun Life	Steve Sykes	12
13	Besses o' th' Barn	Derek Broadbent	14
14	Black Dyke Mills	James Watson	1
15	Desford Colliery	Frank Renton	16
16	Rigid Containers Group	John Berryman	5
17	David A Hall Whitburn	Chris Houlding	7
18	Polypipe Rossington	John Hudson	11
19	Cory	Melvin White	6
20	Brighouse & Rastrick	Allan Withington	18
21	Markfield	John Hudson	17
22	David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial	Alan Exley	4

Stanley Wainwright Memorial Trophy (best instrumentalist): Helen Fox (cornet, Marple)

Markfield and David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial relegated to Grand Shield
Points awarded to top six bands only