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2009 Butlins Mineworkers - Section 1

Date:
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Venue:
Butlins Skyline Resort, Skegness

Test piece:
Hostile Skies, Richard Grantham,

Adjudicator(s):
Frank Renton & Paul Norley (Section A): Denis Wilby & Philip Harper (Section B)

Pos Band Conductor Dr Pts
1 Blackburn & Darwen Nick Sheppard 1 -
2 Cornerstone Brass Gavin Lamplough 2 -
3 Vernon Building Society Poynton Kevin Gibbs 3 -
4 Hebden Bridge Dennis Hadfield 6 -
5 Stocksbridge Miles Davison 4 -
6 Foresters Brass 2000 Mike Fowles 5 -

Highest Placed Mining Band: GT Group Peterlee

The First Section was split into two sections A & B with the adjudicators putting the top three in each section through to the play final.

The following bands competed in Section A Cornerstone Brass, Gavin Lamplough, 11,Foresters Brass 2000, Mike Fowles, 3, Hebden Bridge, Dennis Hadfield, 12,4, Haverhill Silver, Mark Ager, 10, 5, Gresley Colliery, Nigel Boddice, 2,6, United Yorkshire Coop, Simon Kerwin, 9,7, Markham & District Colliery, Nigel Seaman, 5, 8, Johnstone Silver, Raymond Tennant, 7, 9, Pontardulais Town (Burns Pet Nutrition), Paul Jenkins, 8, 10, Barton Town, Gary Oglesby, 4, 11, The Cawston Band, Colin Swaep, 1, 12, Bedworth Brass, Stephen Tighe, 6,13, Ibstock Brick Brass, Ken Ferguson, 13.

The following Bands competed in Section B: Blackburn & Darwen, Nick Sheppard, 9, Stocksbridge, Miles Davison, 3,Vernon Building Society Poynton, Kevin Gibbs, 13,4, Sandhurst Silver, Ian McElligott, 4, 5, Meltham & Meltham Mills, Stuart Fawcett, 1, 6, GT Group (Peterlee), Stephen Malcolm, 10, 7, Carlton Brass, Walter Ritchie, 7, 8, Langley Band, Cliff Parker, 2, 9, Denham Hendon Brass, Gordon Davies, 8, 10, Hopkins Blidworth Colliery, Kevin Steward, 12, 11, City of Coventry Brass, Stephen Cooper, 5, 12, NW Ellington Colliery, TBA, 11,13, Foss Dyke Band, Andrew Keegan, 6.


The adjudicators in Section B for some reason placed bands differently to those in Section A. Placings shown here will appear two places lower than shown on their adjudications.
 



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