The Yorkshire Regional Championship Committee has announced its line up of competing bands and adjudicator’s for the Area Contest, which takes place at Bradford’s St. George’s Hall on weekend of the 6th/7th March.
Numbers up
This year 60 bands have entered (up 3 from 2009) with Derek Broadbent and C Brian Buckley given the task of separating out the top section bands on the Sunday afternoon.
Championship Section:
Sunday 7th March
Draw: 3.30pm
Start: 5.30pm
Adjudicators: Derek Broadbent & C Brian Buckley
Black Dyke (Dr. Nicholas J. Childs)
Brighouse and Rastrick (Professor David King)
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Philip McCann)
Drighlington (Jim Davies)
Grimethorpe Colliery (Allan Withington)
Hepworth (Cookson Homes) (Ian Porthouse)
Marsden Silver Prize (Glyn Williams)
Old Silkstone (Chris Hirst)
Powerfuel Hatfield Colliery (Graham O’Connor)
Rothwell Temperance (David Roberts)
Skelmanthorpe (John Roberts)
Stannington (Derek Renshaw)
Wakefield Metropolitan (Norman Law)
First Section:
Saturday 6th March
Draw: 1.00pm
Start: 2.30pm approx
Adjudicators: Lynda Nicholson & Kevin Wadsworth
City of Sheffield (David Holling)
Cornerstone (Gavin Lamplough)
Hade Edge (Simon Wood)
Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths)
Hebden Bridge (Roy Curran)
Holme Silver (Disposables UK Group) (Duncan Beckley)
Kippax (David Lancaster)
Lindley (Paul Andrews)
Meltham and Meltham Mills (Stuart Fawcett)
Slaithwaite (Barry Hudson)
Yorkshire Co-op (Simon Kerwin)
Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel (David Nesbitt)
Second Section:
Saturday 6th March
Draw: 9.00am
Start: 10.30am
Adjudicators: C. Brian Buckley & Steve Pritchard-Jones
Barnsley Building Society (Rob Straw)
Dodworth Colliery M.W. (Eliot J. Darwin)
Emley (Garry Hallas)
Frickley/South Elmsall (David Nichols)
Garforth (Steven Bailey)
Grange Moor (Michael Howley)
Horbury Victoria (Duncan Beckley)
Knottingley (Dr Owen Wedgewood)
Rockingham (Roland Spencer)
South Yorkshire Police (Leigh Baker)
Strata (David Hirst)
Third Section:
Sunday 7th March
Draw: 8.00am
Start: 9.30am
Adjudicators: Lynda Nicholson & Alan Morrison
Armthorpe Elmfield (Haydn Griffiths MBE)
Chapeltown (Andrew Dennis)
Clifton & Lightcliffe (John Clay)
Crofton Silver (Tim Sidwell)
Elland (James Shepherd)
Gawthorpe (Stephen Bradnum)
Gawthorpe Brass ‘85’ (John Edward)
Lofthouse 2000 (Andrew Whitaker)
Maltby Miners Welfare (Terry Clifford)
Skelmanthorpe ‘B’ (Philip Garlick)
West Yorkshire Police (Captain Gary Clegg)
Wetherby & District Silver (Alan Seymour)
Fourth Section:
Sunday 7th March
Draw: 12.00noon
Start: 1.30pm
Adjudicators: Steve Pritchard-Jones & Philip Sparke
Barnsley Metropolitan (Alex Francis)
Clifton & Lightcliffe ‘B’ (John Clay)
Deepcarr (Gavin Somerset)
Dinnington Colliery (Jonathan Beatty)
Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) (Colin Hardy)
Haworth (Charles Hindmarsh)
Huddersfield & Ripponden (Tony Jaeger-Fozard)
Linthwaite (G. Pulleyn)
Oughtibridge (Alan Coe)
Thurcroft (Ken Vernon)
Wilsden (Ken Lee)
Worsbrough Brass (John K. Hopkinson)
