The results from the Saddleworth & Oldham District Whit Friday contests held on Friday 17th June.
Saddleworth and Oldham District Championship
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £2,500
2. Leyland — £1,000
3. Marsden Silver — £750
Youth: Dobcross Youth — £250
Local Championship
1. Co-operative Milnrow — £750
2. Oldham (Lees) — £600
3. Diggle — £400
Delph:
82 Bands (record)
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1,000
2. Co-operative Milnrow — £700
3. Hepworth — £400
4. Marsden Silver — £300
5. Leyland — £250
6. Delph — £200
7. Hammonds Saltaire — £100
Highest non-Championship Section: Haslingden & Helmshore — £130
Highest 3rd/4th Section: Cheshire Constabulary — £130
Highest Local:
1. Uppermill — £125
2. Oldham (Lees) — £75
Highest Saddleworth: Diggle — £60
Highest Youth:
1. Smithills Senior Brass Band — £100
2. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £60
Cornet: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Soprano: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Basses: Brighouse & Rastrick — £40
Trombones: Co-operative Milnrow — £30
Euphonium: Hepworth — £30
Denshaw:
52 Bands
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £750
2. Hepworth — £350
3. Diggle — £300
Highest 1st Section:
1. Oldham (Lees) — £100
2. Wardle Anderson — £75
Highest 2nd Section:
1. Dobcross Silver — £100
2. Denham Hendon Brass — £75
Highest 3rd Section:
1. Greenalls — £100
2. York Railway Institute — £75
Highest 4th Section:
1. City of Chester — £100
2. Golborne Brass — £75
Highest Local: Co-operative Milnrow — £100
Highest Saddleworth:
1. Delph — £150
2. Dobcross Youth — £125
Highest Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Wardle High School — £75
Best Basses: Brighouse & Rastick — £40
Best Soprano: Brighouse & Rastrick
Diggle
50 Bands
1. Leyland — £650
2. Pemberton Old DW Wigan — £450
3. Brighouse & Rastrick — £350
Highest 1st/2nd Section: Rainford — £150
Highest 3rd/4th Section: City of Bradford — £150
Highest Youth: Smithills Senior Brass Band — £100
High Saddleworth: Diggle — £125
Best Bass Section: Brighouse & Rastrick — £60
Best Euphonium: Leyland — £30
Best Solo Cornet: Pemberton Old DW Wigan — £30
Best Soprano Cornet: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Best Band on the March: Harrogate — £30
Best Instrumentalist: Smithills Senior Brass Band — £30
Peter Blacker Memorial Prize: £50
Dobcross:
56 Bands
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £750
2. Leyland — £500
3. Marsden Silver — £400
4. United Co-op Milnrow
5. Hepworth
6. Oldham (Lees)
Highest Saddleworth: Diggle — £200
Highest Local: Marsden Silver — £275
Highest Junior:
1. Dobcross Youth — £250
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £150
First band to play: Diggle — £10
Junior Soloist: Rochdale Borough Youth (Cornet)- £50
Junior Player: Dobcross Youth (Euphonium)- £50
Local Junior: Dobcross Youth (Cornet)- £50
Youth Soprano: Smithills Senior Band — £50
Friezland:
41 Bands
1. City of Bradford — £150
2. Elland — £75
3. Greenalls — £50
4. Stalybridge Old — £25
Highest 4th Section: Parr — £25
Highest Youth
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £50
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £25
Deportment:
1. Bramley Brass: — £25
2. Rossendale Scouts — £10
Highest Local: Boarshurst -£10
Best Solo Cornet: Stalybridge Old — £10
Best Bass Section: Dobcross Youth — £10
Greenacres:
40 Bands
1. Rothwell Temperance — £750
2. Leyland — £500
3. Hammonds Saltaire — £200
Highest 2nd Section:
1. Uppermill — £100
2. Flixton — £75
3. Barnsley Chronicle — £50
Highest 3rd Section:
1. Greenalls — £100
2. York Railway Institute — £75
3. Farnworth and Walkden — £50
Highest 4th Section:
1. Boarshurst — £100
2. West Coast Brass — £75
3. Greenfield — £50
Highest Local:
1. Oldham (Lees) — £75
2. Co-operative Milnrow — £50
3. Diggle — £30
Highest Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £50
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £30
Best Cornet: Leyland
Best Euphonium: Hammonds Saltaire
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £50
Crowd Favourite: Wardle Juniors (for most entertaining street march)
Greenfield:
65 bands
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1,000
2. Marsdsen Silver — £750
3. Hepworth — £500
Highest 1st Section:
1. Longridge — £400
2. Diggle — £200
Highest 2nd Section:
1. St Sebastians Wokingham — £150
2. Cheshire Constabularly — £125
Highest 3rd Section:
1. City of Chester — £100
2. Smithills — £75
Highest 4th Section:
1. Boarshurst — £70
2. Rochdale Borough Youth — £60
3. Rossendale Scouts — £50
Highest Saddleworth: Diggle — £50
Highest Local: Co-operative Milnrow — £50
Highest Youth: Dobcross Youth — £50
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £50
Entertainment Prize: Bramley and Wardle Junior — £50
Cornet — Marsden Silver — £100
Euphonium — Brighouse & Rastrick — £50
Grotton:
46 Bands
1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £600
2. Rothwell Temperance — £300
3. Oldham Band (Lees) — £150
4. Marsden Silver — £100
Highest 1st Section:
1. Greenalls — £100
2. Emley Brass — £75
Highest 2nd Section:
1. Tyldesley — £75
2. Delph — £50
Highest 3rd/4th Section:
1. Whitworth Vale & Healey — £75
2. York Eailway Institute
Highest Local:
1. Uppermill — £100
2. Boarshurst — £75
Highest Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth — £100
2. Smithills Senior Brass Band — £50
Cornet: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Soprano Cornet: York Railway Institute — £30
Senior Deportment: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Youth Deportment: Oldham Music Centre — £25
Lees & Springhead:
48 Bands
1. Hammonds Saltaire — £600
2. Hepworth — £400
3. Leyland — £200
4. Marsden Silver — £125
Highest 1st Section: Frickley South Elmsall
Highest 2nd Section: Delph
Highest 3rd Section: Greenalls
Highest 4th Section: Boarshurst
Lydgate:
60 Bands
1. Leyland — £800
2. Hammonds Saltaire — £400
3. Oldham (Lees) — £200
Highest 1st Section:
1. Wardle Anderson — £125
2. Diggle — £75
Highest 2nd Section:
1. Yarwell & Nassington Britannia — £125
2. Elland Silver — £75
Highest 3rd Section:
1. York Railway Institute — £125
2. University of Warwick and Southampton — £75
Highest 4th Section:
1. Salvo Brass — £125
2. Sale Brass — £75
Highest Local:
1. Oldham (Lees) — £125
2. Diggle — £75
Highest Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Wardle High Senior — £75
Senior Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary
Junior Deportment: 2nd Rossendale Scouts
Cornet: Hammonds Saltaire
Soprano Cornet: Hammonds Saltaire
Basses: Leyland
Euphonium: Hepworth
Trombone: Leyland
Scouthead & Austerlands:
63 Bands
1. Rothwell Temperance — £750
2. Marsden Silver — £400
3. Pemberton Old DW Wigan — £300
4. Hammonds Saltaire — £200
Highest 1st Section:
1. Oldham (Lees) — £125
2. Rainford — £75
3. Longridge — £50
Highest 2nd Section:
1. Uppermill — £125
2. Flixton — £75
3. Eccleston — £50
Highest 3rd Section:
1. Elland Silver — £125
2. Greenalls — £75
3. Cheshire Constabulary — £50
Highest 4th Section:
1. Boarshurst — £125
2. West Coast Brass — £75
3. Greenfield — £50
Highest Local:
1. Co-operative Milnrow — £125
2. Dobcross Silver — £75
3. Meltham & Meltham Mills — £50
Highest Saddleworth:
1. Diggle — £125
2. Delph — £75
3. Diggle 'B'- £50
Highest Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth — £125
2. Oldham Music Centre — £75
3. Shirland Training — £50
Deportment: Cheshire Constabularly — £50
Youth Deportment: 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £30
Special Commendation: Wardle Junior Band — £30
Best Basses: Marsden Silver — £30
First band to play: Kirbymoorside: £30
Uppermill:
55 Bands
1. Marsden Silver — £1,000
2. Hepworth — £400
3. Delph — £250
4. Rothwell Temperance — £200
5. Hammonds Saltaire
6. Pemberton Old Wigan DW
Highest 1st Section: Hammonds Saltaire — £100
Highest 2nd Section: Uppermill — £85
Highest 3rd Section: University of Warwick & Southampton — £75
Highest 4th section: Friezland — £65
Highest Local:
1. Dobcross Silver — £175
2. Oldham (Lees) — £100
3. Meltham & Meltham Mills — £75
Best Saddleworth not in Local Prizes: Diggle 'B' Band — £65
Highest Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth — £150
2. Rochdale Borough Youth: £100
Deportment: Hepworth — £65
Local Deportment: Dobcross Youth — £100
Best Soloist: Hepworth — £30
