CONTEST RESULTS

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

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