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2025 Region: North West - Section 1

Date:
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Venue:
Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Test piece:
Introduction, Elegy and Caprice, Morley Calvert

Adjudicator(s):
Leigh Baker; Anne Crookston

Pos Band Conductor Dr Pts
1 Tyldesley Neil Samuel 1-
2 Freckleton Adam Taylor 6-
3 Diggle Sean Conway 14-
4 Whitworth Vale & Healey Mike Golding 16-
5 Valley Brass (Haydock) Dave Chadwick 5-
6 Roberts Bakery Mike Jones 7-
7 Ashton-under-Lyne Paul Lovatt-Cooper 3-
8 Eccles Borough Mareika Gray 9-
9 Flixton Adie Smith 11-
10 Skelmersdale Ben Coulson 10-
11 Blackburn & Darwen Daniel Thomas 12-
12 Haydock Mark Quinn 13-
13 Hazel Grove Nigel Beasley 17-
14 Pemberton Old Wigan DW 'B' Ryan Breen 15-
15 Silk Brass Tony Wyatt 4-
16 Manx Concert Brass Ian Clague 2-
17 Mossley Martyn Evans 8-

Qualifiers: Tyldesley; Freckleton; Diggle

Original contest report: Click here 



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