CONTEST RESULTS

Spring Festival (Grand Shield)

Date: 10 May 1997
Venue: Victoria Hall, Bolton
Adjudicator(s): Derek Garside, Geoffrey Whitham
Test piece: Festival Music (Eric Ball)

Pos Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Wallace Arnold (Rothwell) Douglas Blackledge 11 193 Flag
2 NSK-RHP Ransome Brian Grant 22 192 Flag
3 Point of Ayr Michael Fowles 21 191 Flag
4 Northop Silver Thomas Wyss 17 190 Flag
5 British Steel Teesside Derek Broadbent 9 189 Flag
6 EYMS Andrew Snell 19 188 Flag
7 Staffordshire Building Society Andy Culshaw 5 Flag
8 BT Alan Lawton 18 Flag
9 Stalybridge Old James Cant 16 Flag
10 Flowers Bryan Hurdley 14 Flag
11 BTM Alan Morrison 10 Flag
12 Rhodian Brass Graham O'Connor 7 Flag
13 David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial James Scott 2 Flag
14 British Fuels (Parc & Dare) Richard Adams 6 Flag
15 Wooley Pritchard Sovereign Brass David Maplestone 15 Flag
16 British Aerospace (Chadderton) Simon Wood 12 Flag
17 Carlton Main Frickley Colliery John Hinckley 4 Flag
18 Bournemouth Concert Brass Nigel Taken 1 Flag
19 Fishburn Ian Robinson 8 Flag
20 Longridge Gordon Clough 20 Flag
21 Thoresby Colliery (Joy Manufacturing) Stanley Lippeatt 3 Flag
22 Bo'ness & Carriden Roy Newsome 13 Flag

Qualifiers (for 1998 British Open): Wallace Arnold (Rothwell) and NSK-RHP Ransome

Points awarded to first six bands only