Whit Friday
Oldham & Saddleworth
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Photos from the 2009 Contests

Additional photos will be loaded as they become available

The weather conditions this year were not exactly conducive to good photography.

A podcast of the first Diggle contest is now available. See the Sound Clips page.

If anyone is in any way uncomfortable about appearing or being identified in any of the photos on this web-site, please email and the offending picture or caption will be removed.

Diggle Contest:

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Diggle B Diggle B Wardle High Wardle High
  Diggle B Band Diggle B Band Emma Conway leading in Wardle High Junior Band (on her 8th birthday) Wardle High Junior Band
Wardle High Black Dyke Black Dyke Littleborough
  Wardle High Junior Band Black Dyke - Diggle contest winners Black Dyke - Diggle contest winners Littleborough Band
  Dodworth Milnrow Huddersfield University Huddersfield University
  Dodworth Band Milnrow Band Huddersfield University Huddersfield University
  Bedworth Bedworth Band Unknown Announcer
  Bedworth Brass Bedworth Brass Delph Youth Band Announcer - Dale Hitchen
  Blackworth Colliery Chefs Stockswell Floss
  Peter Barker & Matthew Fletcher - Backworth Colliery Band Heroines Arthur Cutts - Stocksbridge Band Floss
  Floss Rothwell Temperance    
  Val Stocker & Floss Rothwell Temperance - runners up at Diggle    

Friezland & Greenfield Contests:

Photos by Stephen Anderson:
 
  Coleshill Town Band at Friezland Stereotype Brass at Friezland Greenfield Emma - Frodsham Silver Band at Greenfield
 
  Greenfield Katy, Kath and John - Frodsham Silver Band at Greenfield The Band of the West Merica Constabulary at Greenfield The Band of the West Merica Constabulary at Greenfield

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Scouthead & Austerlands Contest:

Photos by Dave Needham:
  Delph Fo-op Funerary Tartan Brass Tartan Brass
  Delph Band Co-op Funeralcare - Glasgow Tartan Brass Tartan Brass
  Tartan Brass Tartan Brass Tommy Cooper Brass Tommy Cooper Brass
  Tartan Brass - Ginger Jim Tartan Brass Tommy Cooper Brass Tommy Cooper Brass
  Tommy Cooper Brass Danielle Black Dyke Dobcross
  Tommy Cooper Brass Danielle Black Dyke - winners at Scouthead Dobcross Silver
  Dobcross Dobcross Rivlington Addl Hepworth
  Dobcross Silver Dobcross Silver Suzanne Walker - Rivington & Adlington Band Hepworth Band - 2nd prize at Scouthead
  Hepworth Tewitt Youth Caught Eleanor and Karen
  Hepworth Band Tewitt Youth Caught on camera!! Eleanor & Karen
  Black Dyke Avonbank
  Black Dyke Band Jack Deal - Avonbank Band (Evesham) - on loan from Atlantic Brass (Philadelphia USA). He came over to England especially for Whit Friday.  
Photos by Graham Mcgloughlin:
  Bactiguard Wire Brass Black Dyke
  Let's get this show on the road Bactiguard Wire Brass Black Dyke Back Row Kirkbymoorside Band - first band off
 
  Tiverton Town Band Band unknown (2) Ted Tooley with Shaw Band Banovallum Band
 
  Coleshill Town Band Band unknown (6) Co-op Funeralcare Band, Glasgow Lancaster University Brass Band
  Meltham+MMills Newhall Oldham Youth
  Meltham & Meltham Mills Band Newhall Band Oldham Youth Band Dronfield Band (2nd in the 4th Section Nationals)
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Denshaw Contest:

Photos by Annie Robson:

http://denshawbrass2009.fotopic.net