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Results: Whit Friday — Saddleworth

The results from the Saddleworth and Oldham District Whit Friday Contests held on Friday 28th May.

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The results from the Saddleworth and Oldham District Whit Friday Contests held on Friday 28th May are as follows:

Full results

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Saddleworth & Oldham District Championship

1. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £2,500
2. Brighouse and Rastrick — £1,000
3. Rothwell Temperance — £750

Local Championship

1. Marsden Silver — £750
2. Oldham (Lees) — £600
3. Co-operative Milnrow — £400

Youth Championship

1. Dobcross Youth — £250
2. Rochdale Borough Youth
3. Tewitt Youth

Delph:
79 Bands

1. Marsden Silver — £1000
2. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £700
3. Kirkbymoorside Town — £400
4. Rothwell Temperance — £300
5. Oldham Band (Lees) — £250
6. Brighouse & Rastrick — £200
7. Stavanger — £100

Highest placed non-Championship:
1. Vernon Building Society Poynton — £130

Highest placed 3rd/4th Section before 9.00pm:
1. Enfield Band — £130

Highest placed local band:
1. Delph — £125
2. Wardle Anderson Brass — £75

Highest placed Saddleworth band:
1. Dobcross Silver — £60

Highest placed Youth band:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Dobcross Youth — £60

Solo prizes:
Best Soprano: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Best Solo Cornet: Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £30
Best Euphonium: Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £30
Best Trombones: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Best Basses: Marsden Silver — £40
Deportment Prize: Tewit Youth — £30


Denshaw:
49 Bands

1. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £750
2. Wakefield Metropolitan — £350
3. Pemberton Old Wigan DW — £300
4. Stavanger

Highest 1st Section:
1. St Austell — £100
2. Vernon Building Society — £75

Highest 2nd Section:
1. Frickley South Elmsall — £100
2. Eccleston — £75

Highest 3rd Section:
1. Greenalls — £100
2. Fulham — £75

Highest 4th Section:
1. Kingsway Printers — £100
2. Enfield — £75

Highest Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Rochdale Borough — £75

Best Soprano: Hepworth (Cookson Homes)
Best Basses: Wakefield Metropolitan

Diggle:
55 Bands (Record)

1. Rothwell Temperance — £650
2. Fairey (Geneva) — £450
3. Pemberton Old DW Wigan — £300
4. Lyngby Taarbaek
5. Marsden Silver
6. Stavanager

Highest placed 1st/2nd Section:
1. Diggle — £150

Highest placed 3rd/4th Section:
1. Elland — £150

Highest placed Saddleworth:
1. Uppermill — £125

Highest placed Youth:
1. Oldham Music Centre — £125

Solo prizes:
Bass: Rothwell Temperance — £60
Cornet: Pemberton Old DW Wigan — £30
Soprano: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Euphonium: Diggle — £30
Best band on march: Saanen & Wardle Youth
Best instrumentalist not in Championship Section: Elland Silver


Dobcross:
65 Bands

1. Rothwell Temperance — £750
2. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £500
3. Wakefield Metropolitan — £400

Highest placed Local:
1. Marsden Silver — £200

Best Local Whit Friday morning:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £75

Highest placed Saddleworth:
1. Diggle — £200

Highest placed Youth:
1. Smithills Senior — £250
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £150

Junior Soloist: Smithills Senior Cornet — £50
Junior Player: Rochdale Youth, Euphonium — £50
Local Junior Soloist Dobcross Youth Cornet — £50
Soprano: Smithills Senior — £50

Friezland:
46 Bands

1. Elland Silver — £150
2. Hoover Bolton
3. Stalybridge Old
4. Uppermill

Highest placed 4th Section:
1. Blackley

Highest placed Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth
2. Mossley Hollins High

Highest placed Local:
1. Uppermill

Deportment:
1. Cheshire Constabulary
2. Wardle High School

Solo prizes:
Solo Cornet: Bridle Brass
Bass Section: Uppermill

Greenacres:
46 Bands

1. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £750
2. Marsden Silver — £500
3. Foden's — £200
4. Oldham (Lees)
5. Brighouse & Rastrick

Highest placed 2nd Section:
1. Frickley South Elmsall — £100
2. Rainford — £75
3. Diggle — £50

Highest placed 3rd Section:
1. Delph — £100
2. Cheshire Constabulary — £75
3. Greenalls — £50

Highest placed 4th Section:
1. Boarshurst — £100
2. Greenfield — £75
3. Farnworth & Walkden -£50

Highest placed local:
1. Marsden Silver — £75
2. Oldham Band (Lees) — £50
3. Delph — £30

Highest placed Youth:
1. Enderby — £50
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £30

Solo prizes:
Cornet: Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £30
Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Deportment: Cheshire Constabularly — £50
Crowd Favourite: Greenfield

Greenfield:
62 Bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1000
2. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £750
3. Rothwell Temperance — £350

Highest 1st Section:
1. Hammonds Saltaire — £400
2. Diggle — £200

Highest 2nd Section:
1. Cheshire Constabulary — £150
2. Saanen — £125

Highest 3rd Section:
1. Detligen — £100
2. Uppermill — £75

Highest 4th Section:
1. Boarshurst — £70
2. Yarwell and Nassington — £60
3. Tiverton — £30

Highest Youth:
1. Smithills — £50

Best Cornet: Brighouse & Rastrick — £50
Best Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick — £50
Best Local: Oldham Band (Lees) — £50
Best Saddleworth: Diggle: £50
Best Local 4th Section or below: Boarshurst
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £50

Grotton:
41 Bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £600
2. Rothwell Temperance — £500
3. Marsden Silver — £150
4. Co-operative Milnrow — £100

Highest placed 1st Section:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £100
2. Uppermill — £75

Highest placed 2nd Section:
1. Whitworth Vale and Healey — £75
2. The Parr Band — £50

Highest placed 3rd/4th Section:
1. Rivington and Adlington — £75
2. Banovallum Brass

Highest placed local:
1. Mossley — £100
2. Dobcross — £75

Highest placed Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Tewitt Youth — £50

Solo prizes:
Cornet: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Soprano: Wardle & District Anderson Brass — £30
Deportment: Coleshill — £30
Youth Deportment: 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £25

Lydgate:
66 Bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £775
2. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £275
3. Oldham (Band) Lees — £150
4. Vernon Building Society Poynton
5. Lyngby Taarbaek

Highest placed 1st Section:
1. VBS Poynton — £110

Highest 2nd Section:
1. Boarshurst — £110

Highest 3rd Section:
1. Amington — £110

Highest 4th Section:
1. Salvo Brass — £110

Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth
2. 2nd Rossendale Scouts

Best Sounding Band: Lyngby Taarbaek
Cornet: Hepworth (Cookson Homes)
Soprano: Brighouse & Rastrick
Euphonium: Frickley South Emsall
Trombone: Brighouse & Rastrick
Horn: Brighouse & Rastrick
Basses: Brighouse & Rastrick

Junior Deportment: Wardle High
Senior Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary
Best Local: Oldham (Lees)

Lees & Springhead:
41 Bands

1. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £600
2. Co-operative Milnrow — £400
3. Rothwell Temperance — £200
4. Marsden Silver — £125

Highest placed 1st Section:
1. Oldham (Lees)
2. Wardle & District Anderson Brass

Highest placed 2nd Section:
1. Diggle
2. Frickley South Elmsall

Highest placed 3rd Section:
1. Cheshire Constabulary
2. Uppermill

Highest placed 4th Section:
1. Hazel Grove
2. West Coast Brass

Highest placed Local:
1. Oldham (Lees)
2. Uppermill

Highest placed Youth:
1. RochdaleBorough Youth
2. Smithills School

Deportment: Co-operative Milnrow
Youth Deportment: Tewitt Youth

Scouthead & Austerlands:
68 Bands

1. Fairey (Geneva) — £750
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £400
3. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £300
4. Marsden Silver — £200

First Section:
1. Oldham (Lees) — £125
2. Longbridge — £75
3. VBS Poynton — £50

Second Section:
1. Rainford — £125
2. Frickley South Elmsall — £75
3. Alder Valley — £50

Third Section:
1. Uppermill — £125
2. Greenalls — £75
3. Detlingen Band — £50

Fourth Section:
1. Boarshurst — £125
2. Farnworth & Walkden — £75
3. Huddersfield & Ripponden — £50

Youth Section:
1. Shirland — £125
2. Wardle High — £75
3. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £50

Best Local:
1. Co-op Milnrow — £125
2. Meltham & Meltham Mills — £75
3. Greenfield — £50

Best Saddleworth:
1. Dobcross — £125
2. Diggle — £75
3. Lydgate — £50

Prizes:
Deportment (Senior): Coleshill Town & Cheshire Constabulary — £25
Deportment (Youth): Wardle High — £30
Best Basses: Fairey (Geneva) — £50
Best Sporano: Marsden Silver — £25
Best Soloist: Brighouse & Rastrick — £25
First band: Coleshill Town — £30


Uppermill:
62 Bands

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1000
2. Marsden Silver — £400
3. Lyngby Taarbaek — £250
4. Hepworth (Cookson Homes) — £250

Highest placed local:
1. Co-operative Milnrow — £175
2. Oldham Band (Lees) — £100
3. Delph — £70

Soloist prize:
Euphonium: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30

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