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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
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