RECENT RANKING CONTESTS

CONTEST RESULTS

1997

British Open

Date:	17 Jan 1998
Venue:	Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Adjudicator(s):	David Read, William Relton, James Williams
Test piece:	Whitsun Wakes (Michael Ball)

Pos	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Yorkshire Building Society	David King	11	199
2	Williams Fairey	James Gourlay	10	198
3	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	5	197
4	NSK-RHP Ransome	Brian Grant	2	194
5	Grimethorpe Colliery	Major Peter Parkes	7	193
6	Tredegar Town	James Scott	3	192
7	Cory	Jeremy Wise	16
8	JJB Sports Leyland	Richard Evans	14
9	Fodens (Courtois)	Nicholas J Childs	13
10	Brighouse & Rastrick	Allan Withington	4
11	Marple	Garry E Cutt	15
12	Sellers Engineering	Alan Morrison	9
13	David A Hall Whitburn	Richard Adams	8
14	Rothwell (Leeds)	Thomas Wyss	17
15	Desford Colliery	Frank Renton	6
16	Besses o' th' Barn	Derek Broadbent	1
17	Rigid Containers Group	John Berryman	12

Stanley Wainwright Memorial Trophy (best instrumentalist): Ian Porthouse (cornet, Yorkshire Building Society)

Black Dyke, Wingates and Polypipe Rossington didn't enter

No bands were relegated
Points awarded to top six bands only
Contest was postponed from September 1997 following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales