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British Open
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