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Whit Friday: Tameside

The results from the Tameside District Whit Friday Contests held on Friday 16th May

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Broadoak — 44 Bands

1. Fairey — £400
2. Glossop — £180
3. Blackburn and Darwen — £120
4. Ashton under Lyne — £90

Best 2nd Section: Stalybridge — £70
Best 3rd Section: Hawk Green Marple — £60
Best 4th Section: 1. Farnworth and Walkden — £50; 2. Eccles Borough — £30
Best Local: Stockport Brass — £55; 2. Wardle and District Anderson Brass — £30
Best Junior: 1. Rochdale Borough Youth — £50; 2. Macclesfield Youth — £30
Deportment: Haslingden and Helmshore — £50
Deportment Junior: Rochdale Borough Youth — £20
1st band to play: Penrith Town Band — £15


Carrbrook — 44 Bands

1. Faireys — £600
2. Fodens Richardson — £300

2nd Section: Haslingden & Helmshore — £150
3rd Section: Elland Silver — £125
4th Section: Eccles Borough Band — £100
Best Local: Glossop Old Band — £60

Youth: 1. Mossley Hollins — £60; 2. Sellers Youth Band — £50
1st Band to play: Mossley Hollins — £20
Deportment: Cheshire Constabulary — £50


Denton — 48 bands (record)

1. Stockport Brass — £250
2. Hebden Bridge
3. Fodens Richardson

Best Local: Vernon Building Society Poynton
Best 1st Section: Ashton Under Lyne
Best 2nd Section: Stalybridge
Best 3rd Section: Elland Silver
Best 4th Section: Hazel Grove
Best Junior: Wirral Schools

Best Basses: Hazel Grove
Best Cornet: Hebden Bridge
Best Junior Cornet: Wirral Schools
Best Trombone: Stockport Brass


Droylsdon — 39 Bands (record)

1. Fodens — £500
2. Fairey — £250
3. Leyland — £150
4. Freckleton — £100

Best 2nd Section: 1. Stalybridge — £200; 2. Wardle and District — £100
Best 3rd Section: 1. Hawk Green Marple — £200; 2. Bakewell — £100
Best 4th Section: 1. Carrbrook — £200; 2. Newhall — £200
Best Junior: 1. Mossley Hollins — £200; 2. Macclesford Youth — £100


Dukinfield — 47 Bands (record)

1. Fodens — £400
2. Faireys — £200
3. Stockport Brass — £100

Best 2nd Section: Rainford — £100
Best 3rd Section: Audley — £50
Best 4th Section: Farnworth — £50
Best Local: 1. Ashton Under Lyne — £200; 2. Glossop — £150; 3. Stalybridge — £100
Best Youth: 1. Dobcross — £100; 2. Mossley Hollins — £50


Heyrod — 40 (record)

1. Fodens Richardson — £500
2. Stockport Brass — £200
3. Faireys — £150
4. Leyland — £100

Best 2nd Section: Stalybridge — £50
Best 3rd Section: Elland Silver — £50
Best 4th Section: Port Sunlight — £50
Best Local: Ashton-under-Lyne — £50
Best Junior: Birmingham Schools — £80

Best Cornet: Fodens Richardson — £20
Deportment: Leyland — £20

Hurst Cross — 54 Bands

1. Leyland — £300
2. Fodens
3. Fairey

Best 1st Section: Poulton-le-Fylde
Best 2nd Section: Stalybridge
Best 3rd Section: Elland Silver
Best 4th Section: 1. Blackley; 2. St John's Mossley
Best Local: Stalybridge; 2. Stockport Brass
Best Junior: 1. Wirral Schools; 2. Mossley Hollins; 3. Macclesfield Youth
Deportment: Hebden Bridge

Stalybridge — 53 bands

1. Fodens — £500
2. Fairey — £300
3. Stockport Brass — £200

Best Local: 1. Glossop — £200; 2. Ashton under Lyne — £100; 3. Stalybridge — 50
Best Youth: Sellers Youth International — £40
Solo Junior Cornet: Sellers International — £20
Deportment: Adamsons and Lladudno — £25


Stalybridge Celtic — 48 Bands

1. Fodens — £350
2. Leyland
3. Fairey

Best 4th Section: Stockport and Reddish
Best Tameside: 1. Stalybridge; 2. St John's Castle
Best Junior: 1. Wirral Schools; 2. Wardle High Intermediate
1st Band to Play: Brettforten Silver


Upper Mossley — 45 bands

1. Fodens — £400
2. Fairey — £250
3. Glossop — £200

Best Local: 1. Stockport Brass — £150; 2. Ashton under Lyne — £75
Best Youth: Mossley Hollins — £50
Solo Cornet: Stockport Brass — £20
Deportment: St John's Mossley — £30
Tony Ogden Cup: Brass Band Lucerne — £50
Marian Bainbridge Cup: Mossley — £25

Full results:

www.4barsrest.com/gallery/media/2008_whit_tameside.xls

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