Black Dyke has been crowned the 2012 Saddleworth & Oldham District Whit Friday Champion.

Grand Knight

Conducted by Dr Nicholas Childs, the reigning English, European and Yorkshire title holder, performed 'Knight Templar' to claim victories at Delph, Denshaw, Diggle, Greenacres, Lydgate and Lees & Springhead, along with a third place at Dobcross to pocket prize money of £4,850.

And with the Saddleworth overall prize of £2,500 and an additional £280 obtained from various individual solo and sectional awards, Dyke ended the night with a whopping £7,630 to put in their local Queensbury bank.

MD's delight

Understandably, Black Dyke's MD, Dr Nicholas Childs was delighted when he spoke to 4BR.

"Black Dyke have only taken part at Whit Friday a handful of times in the past 20 years, but there is always excitement for us when we compete at the greatest march contest in the world.

Sadly, we didn't have the opportunity to travel over to Tameside, but the atmosphere in Saddleworth was tremendous and the competitiveness was frightening and always entertaining."

Brighouse runners-up

Dyke's success meant they wrestled the Saddleworth crown from arch rivals and National champion, Brighouse & Rastrick, who were led by Ian Porthouse.

The West Riding outfit performed 'Ravenswood' around the circuit with victories at Greenfield and Grotton, plus a quartet of runner-up spots at Delph, Denshaw, Dobcross, Lees & Springhead.

Further placings at Diggle and Uppermill along with the individual solo prizes meant they cashed in with a total £5,130 in overall prize money.

Dyke took six first prizes and one third at their eight venues as they banked £7,6304BR

Marsden delight

Third place went to Marsden Silver under guest MD Paul Andrews, who competed at all ten Saddleworth venues.

Whilst there were unable to claim a contest victory, their performances of 'Knight Templar' picked up runner-up spots at Scouthead & Austerlands and Uppermill, with a hat-trick of third places at Delph, Greenfield and Grotton.

After their podium finish at the All England Masters International last Sunday, they boosted their coffers with an additional £2,000 for their night's work.

Oldham's joy

The Local Championship saw Oldham Band (Lees) under John Collins take the £750 first prize, with Milnrow led by Alan Wycherley in second and Delph in third. The Youth honours went to 2nd Rossendale Scout Group.

The full results are published thanks to the excellent work of Bill Cullen.

Saddleworth & Oldham District Championship:

Full results:
http://www.whitfriday.brassbands.saddleworth.org/intro.html
or
www.4barsrest.com/gallery/media/2012WhitFridaySaddleworth.xls

1. Black Dyke — £2,500
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1000
3. Marsden Silver — £750
4. Hepworth
5. Rothwell Temperance
6. Oldham (Lees)

Youth: 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £250

Local Championship:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £750
2. Milnrow — £600
3. Delph — £400

Contest Venues:

Delph:
81 Bands
Adjudicator: Mike Kilroy

1. Black Dyke — £1,000
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £700
3. Marsden Silver — £400
4. Grimethorpe Colliery — £300
5. Milnrow — £250
6. Hammonds Saltaire — £200
7. Cecilia Chemignon — £150

Highest Placed Band not in Championship Section: Salvo Brass — £150
Highest Placed 3rd/4th Section before 9pm: Elland Silver — £150

Highest Placed Local:
1. Delph — £125
2. Diggle — £75

Highest Placed Saddleworth: Dobcross Silver — £60

Highest Placed Youth:
1. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £100
2. Tewit Youth — £60

Solo Cornet: Black Dyke — £30
Soprano: Brighouse & Rastrick — £30
Euphonium: Marsden Silver — £30
Basses: Black Dyke — £40
Trombones: Milnrow — £30
Deportment: Cheshire Constabularly — £35

Denshaw:
52 Bands
Adjudicator: Alan Holdsworth

1. Black Dyke — £750
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £350
3. Rothwell Temperance — £300
4. Rainford
5. Hammonds Saltaire
6. Hepworth

Highest Placed 1st Section:
1. Rainford — £100
2. Oldham (Lees) — £75

Highest Placed 2nd Section:
1. Lindlay — £100
2. Asenhoga — £75

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Whitworth Vale & Healey — £100
2. Huddersfield & Ripponden — £75

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Parr Band — £100
2. Newhall — £75

Highest Placed Saddleworth:
1. Delph — £150
2. Uppermill — £125

Highest Placed Local:
1. Milnrow — £100

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Wardle High — £100
2. Tewit Youth — £75

Spot Prize: Salvo Brass — £100
Best Basses: Black Dyke — £40

Diggle:
50 Bands
Adjudicator: Duncan Beckley

1. Black Dyke — £650
2. Rothwell Temperance — £450
3. Brighouse & Rastrick — £350
4. Emmental
5. Grimethorpe
6. Marsden Silver

Highest Placed 1st/2nd Section: Brass Band Emmantal — £150
Highest Placed 3rd/4th Section: Musik Frohsien Oberburg — £150
Highest Placed 4th Section not in any other prize: Markham Main Colliery — £60

Highest Placed Youth: Wardle High — £100
Highest Placed Saddleworth: Delph — £125
Best Instrumentalist not in Championship Section: Rainford — £30
Best Bass Section: Black Dyke — £60
Soprano Cornet: Black Dyke — £30
Euphonium: Rothwell Temperance — £30
Youth Solo Cornet: Wardle Youth — £30

Dobcross:
65 Bands
Adjudicator: Colin Hardy

1. Fairey — £750
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £500
3. Black Dyke — £400
4. Hammonds Saltaire
5. Rothwell Temperance
6. Crewe Brass

Highest Placed Saddleworth:
1. Diggle — £200

Highest Placed Local:
1. Marsden Silver — £200

Highest Placed Junior:
1. Oldham Music Centre — £250
2. Smithills Senior — £150

Highest placed Local in Whit Friday Processions:
1. Marsden Silver — £75

First band to play: Dobcross Brass Monkeys — £10

Highest placed Junior Soloist: Cornet (Dobcross Youth) — £50
Highest placed Junior Player: Cornet (Dobcross Youth) — £50
Highest placed Local Junior Player: Cornet (Oldham Music Centre) — £50
Youth Soprano: Smithills Senior — £50

Friezland:
40 Bands
Adjudicator: Terry Newbigging

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Elland Silver — £150
2. Music Frohsin Oberburg
3. Cheshire Constabulary
4. Emley Brass
5. Wantage Muppets
6. Sale Brass

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Greenfield

Highest Placed Local:
1. Sale Brass
2. Pendeen Silver
3. Newhall

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Tewit Youth
2. Wardle High

Greenacres:
43 Bands
Adjudicator: Brian Rostron

1. Black Dyke — £750
2. Rothwell Temperance — £500
3. Hepworth — £200
4. Oldham (Lees)
5. Hammonds Saltaire
6. Marsden Silver

Highest Placed 2nd Section:
1. Delph — £100
2. York Railway Institute — £75
3. Uppermill — £50

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Boarshurst Silver — £100
2. Whitworth Vale & Healey — £75
3. Emley Brass — £50

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Parr Band — £100
2. Greenfield — £62.50
3. Lees — £62.50

Highest Placed Local:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £75
2. Marsden Silver — £50
3. Diggle — £30

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Rochdale Borough Youth — £50
2. 2nd Rossendale Scouts — £30

Cornet: Hepworth — £30
Euphonium: Black Dyke — £30
Deportment: Chermignon — £50
Youth Deportment: Rochdale Borough Youth — £30

Greenfield:
60 Bands
Adjudicator: Ray Farr

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £1,000
2. Milnrow — £750
3. Marden Silver — £500
4. Rothwell Temperance
5. Black Dyke
6. Grimethorpe Colliery

Highest 1st Section:
1. Brass Band Emmantal — £400
2. David Urquhart Yorkshire Imperial — £200

Highest 2nd Section:
1. Dobcross Silver — £150
2. Uppermill — £125

Highest 3rd Section
1. Cheshire Constabulary — £100
2. Boarshurst Silver — £75

Highest 4th Section:
1. Yarwell & Nassington: £70
2. Greenfiekd — £60
3. Ellenbrook & Boothstown — 50

Highest Placed Saddleworth: Dobcross Silver — £50
Highest Placed Local 4th Section & Below: Greenfield
Highest Placed Local: Uppermill — £50

Highest Placed Youth
1. Rochdale Borough Youth — £70
2. Smithills Senior — £50

Cornet: Brighouse — £100
Euphonium: Brighouse — £50
Highest Placed Saddleworth: Dobcross — £50
Best Local: Uppermill — £50
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £50
Entertainment: Bramley — £50

Alan Chamberlain Memorial Trophy: Rochdale Borough Youth

Grotton:
46 Bands
Adjudicator: Roy Roe

1. Brighouse & Rastrick — £600
2. Oldham (Lees) — £300
3. Marsden Silver — £150
4. David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial — £100
5. Meltham & Meltham Mills
6. Milnrow

First Section:
1. Delph — £100
2. Lindley — £75

Second Section:
1. Denham Hendon — £75
2. Uppermill — £50

Third Section:
1. Musik Frohsien Oberburg — £75
2. Emley Brass — £50

Local:
1. Milnrow — £100
2. Lees Band — £75

Youth:
1. Tewit Youth — £100
2. Oldham Music Centre — £50

Deportment: Chermignon — £30
Best Cornet: David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial — £30
Youth Deportment: Tewit Youth — £25
Best Soprano: Lydgate — £30

Lydgate:
62 Bands
Adjudicator: Derek Southcott

1. Black Dyke — £800
2. Hepworth — £400
3. Milnrow — £200
4. Marsden Silver
5. Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel
6. Oldham (Lees)

Highest Placed 1st Section:
1. David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial — £150
2. Oldham Band (Lees) — £75

Highest Placed 2nd Section:
1. City of Bradford — £150
2. Eccleston Brass — £75

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Boarshurst Silver — £150
2. Cheshire Constabulary — £75

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Salvo Brass — £150
2. BMP Europe Goodshaw — £75

Highest Placed Local:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £150
2. Diggle — £75

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Dobcross Youth — £150
2. Tewit Youth — £100

Deportment: Chermignon — £80
Junior Deportment: Tewit Youth — £60

Lees & Springhead:
50 Bands
Adjudicator: Alan Fernie

1. Black Dyke — £500
2. Brighouse & Rastrick — £250
3. Oldham Band (Lees) — £150
4. Hammonds Saltaire
5. Hepworth
6. Milnrow

Highest Placed 1st Section:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £75
2. Rainford — £50

Highest Placed 2nd Section:
1. Delph — £75
2. Flixton — £50

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Farnworth & Walkden — £75
2. Boarshurst Silver — £50

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Sale Brass — £75
2. Parr Band — £50

Highest Placed Local:
1. Oldham Band (Lees) — £100

Highest Placed within Oldham Metropolitan Borough
1. Delph — £50

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Smithills Senior — £50
2. Oldham Music Centre — £30

Cornet: Black Dyke — £25
Euphonium: Black Dyke — £25
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £25

Scouthead & Austerlands:
58 Bands
Adjudicator: C.B. Buckley

1. Hepworth — £800
2. Marsden Silver — £400
3. Rainford Silver — £300
4. Oldham (Lees)
5. Concord
6. Grimethorpe

Highest Placed 1st Section:
1. Diggle — £125
2. Bedworth Brass — £75
3. Frickley/South Elmsall — £50

Highest Placed 2nd Section:
1. Cornerstone Brass — £125
2. Denham Hendon — £75
3. Flixton — £50

Highest Placed 3rd Section:
1. Music Frohsin Oberburg — £125
2. Whitworth Vale & Healey — £75
3. Elland Silver — £50

Highest Placed 4th Section:
1. Greenfield — £125
2. Pfaffnau — £75
3. Chermingnon — £50

Highest Placed Local:
1. Milnrow — £125
2. Uppermill — £75
3. Diggle 'B'- £50

Highest Placed Saddleworth:
1. Delph — £125
2. Dobcross Youth — £75
3. Lydgate — £50

Highest Placed Youth:
1. Smithills Senior — £125
2. Shirland Training — £75
3. Tewit Youth — £50

Soloist: Solo Cornet (Hepworth) — £25
Soprano Cornet: Hepworth — £25

Uppermill:
53 Bands
Adjudicator: D. Marshall

1. Foden's — £1,000
2. Marsden Silver — £300
3. Hepworth — £250
4. Brighouse & Rastrick — £200
5. Chermignon
6. VBS Poynton

Highest Placed Local:
1. Delph — £175
2. Oldham Lees — £100

Higest Placed Youth:
1. Wardle High — £150
2. Tewitt Youth — £100

Highest Placed Saddleworth not in Local prize: Dobcross Silver — £65
Highest Placed First Section: Silk Brass — £100
Highest Placed Second Section Asenhoga — £85
Highest Placed Third Section: Musik Frohsien Oberburg — £75
Highest Placed Fourth Section: Amersham — £65

Deportment: Musik Frohsien Oberburg: £65
Local Deportment: Delph: £100
Best Soloist: (Euphonium) Foden's — £30