CONTEST RESULTS

Granada Band of the Year

Date: 9 May 1981
Venue: King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester
Adjudicator(s): Dennis Taylor, John Iveson, Eric Bravington

Pos Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Grimethorpe Colliery Ray Farr 9 230 Flag
2 Fairey Engineering Works Walter Hargreaves 5 225 Flag
3 Desford Colliery Howard Snell 2 213 Flag
4 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Richard Evans 10 211 Flag
5 Sun Life Stanshawe Derek Bourgeois 8 207 Flag
6 City of Coventry Major Peter Parkes 4 205 Flag
7 Cory Denzil Stephens 7 202 Flag
8 Wingates David James 3 200 Flag
9 Berec (Ever Ready) Major Peter Parkes 1 189 Flag
10 CWS (Manchester) Capt Frank Renton 6 188 Flag

Best soloist: Roy Garlick (flugel horn, Fairey Engineering Works)