RECENT RANKING CONTESTS

CONTEST RESULTS

1977

Date:	8 Oct 1977
Venue:	Royal Albert Hall, London
Adjudicator(s):	Havelock Nelson, Buxton Orr, William Relton
Test piece:	Connotations (Edward Gregson)

Pos	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Black Dyke Mills	Major Peter Parkes	19	198
2	Grimethorpe Colliery	Gerard Schwarz	3	193
3	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Denis Carr	9	191
4	Camborne Town	Derek Greenwood	14	189
5	Bo'ness & Carriden	David Richardson	18	188
6	Tredegar Town	R John Childs	11	187
7	Ever Ready (GB)	Major H Arthur Kenney	20	186
8	Wingates Temperance	Capt Frank Renton	15	185
9	RHP (Newark)	Stephen Shimwell	1	184
10	Desford Colliery Welfare	Albert Chappell	17	183
11	Luton	Lyn Morgan	21	182
12	William Davis Construction Group	John Berryman	16	181
13	Stanshawe (Bristol)	Walter Hargreaves	4	180
14	Brighouse & Rastrick	George Evans	5	178
15	Fodens Motor Works	James Scott	12	176
16	Hanwell Silver	Barbara Stone	8	174
17	Cory	Bram Gay	6	172
18	Markham & District Colliery	Don Hendy	2	170
19	Whitburn Burgh	Allan Street	7	168
20	Oxford Concert Brass	Cliff Edmunds	13	162
21	Northumbria Police	Stan MacDonald	10	160

With this win, Black Dyke Mills secured a hat-trick of National Championship victories and were barred from competing in the 1978 championship.