The Belle Vue September Championship
Brass Band Competition
 
- The Winners in the 19th Century -

1853
1854
1855
1856
1857

Two selections of their own choice

1. Mossley Tem.
2. Dewsbury
3. Bramley Tem.
4. Bury Burough

 

Two selections of their own choice.

1. Leeds (RY. F.)
2. Dewsbury
3. Accrington
4. Foxhill Bank
5. Milburn Leeds
6. Bury

"Orynthia" (Melling) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Accrington
2. Leeds (RY. F.)
3. Mossley Tem.
4. Bramley
5. Enfield
6. Dewsbury

"Stradella" Overture (Flotow) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Leeds (RY. F.)
2. Leeds (Smith's)
3. Accrington
4. Foxhill
5. Batley

 "Orynthia" (Melling) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Leeds (RY. F.)
2. Leeds (Smith's)
3. Accrington
4. Foxhill

 
 1858
1859
1860
1861
1862

"On Thee each living soul awaits" and "Achieved is the glorious work" - creation (Haydn)

1. Accrington
2. Dewsbury
3. Mossley
4. Holmfirth
5. Meltham

NO CONTEST
Three bans entered only

1. Black Dyke
2. Dewsbury
3. Holmfirth

"Zampa" Overture (Herold) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Halifax
2. Dewsbury
3. Sherwood
4. Newark
5. Heckmondwike

"Satanella" (Balfe) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Halifax
2. Dewsbury
3. Chesterfield
4. Sherwood
5. London V. A.

"Muette de Portici" (Auber) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Black Dyke
2. Dewsbury
3. Chesterfield
4. Bacup Vol.
5. Compstall

 
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867

"Faust" (Gounod) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Black Dyke
2. Bacup
3. Silsden
4. Preston
5. Dewsbury

"The Reminiscences of Auber" and one selection of their own choice.

1. Bacup
2. Stalybridge
3. Leeds Model
4. Matlock
5. Black Dyke
6. Wednesbury

"Un Ballo in Maschera" (Verdi) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Bacup
2. Dewsbury
3. Matlock
4. Stalybridge
5. Dodsworth's

"L'Africaine"(Meyerbeer) and one selection of their own choice.

1. Dewsbury
2. Matlock
3. Healey Hall
4. Bacup
5. Chesterfield

"Der Frieschultz" (Weber)

1. Clay Cross
2. Bacup
3. Compstall
4. Mow Cop
5. Dodsworth's

 
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872

"Robert le Diable" (Meyerbeer)

1. Burnley
2. Heckmondwike
3. Black Dyke
4. Meltham
5. Matlock

"Le Prophete" (Meyerbeer)

1. Bacup
2. Matlock
3. Burnley
4. Besses-O'th-Barn
5. Linthwaite

"Ernani"(Verdi)

1. Bacup
2. Matlock
3. Dewsbury
4. Besses-O'th-Barn
5. Wednesbury

"Il Barbiere"(Rossini)

1. Black Dyke
2. Bury Borough
3. Bacup
4. Robin Hood
5. Burnley

"Souvenir de Mozart"

1. Robin Hood
2. Saltaire
3. Meltham
4. Besses-O'th-Barn
5. Bury Borough

 
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877

"Dinorah" (Meyerbeer)

1. Meltham
2. Robin Hood
3. Black Dyke
4. Linthwaite
5. Bury Borough

"Faust" (Spohr)

1. Linthwaite
2. Meltham
3. Besses-O'th-Barn
4. Dewsbury
5. Saltaire

"Il Talismano"(Balfe)

1. Kingston
2. Meltham
3. Linthwaite
4. Stalybridge
5. Saltaire

"Aida" (Verdi)

1. Meltham
2. Kingston
3. Holm Mills
4. Linthwaite
5. Golcar

"Jessonda" (Spohr)

1. Meltham
2. Black Dyke
3. Holm Mills
4. Denton Original
5. Kingston

 
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882

"Romeo et Giulietta" (Gounod)

1. Meltham)
2. Kidsgrove
3. Denton
4. Accrington
5. Holm Mills

"The Last Judgement" (Spohr)

1. Black Dyke
2. Accrington
3. Barnsley
4. Saltaire
5. Boarshurst

"Vespri Siciliani" (Verdi)

1. Black Dyke
2. Stalybridge
3. Nelson
4. Linthwaite
5. Trawden
6. Boarshurst

"Cinq Mars"(Gounod)

1. Black Dyke
2. Meltham
3. Stalybridge
4. Boarshurst
5. Trawden
6. Barnsley

"Il Seraglio" (Mozart)

1. Clayton-le-Moor
2. Linthwaite
3. Barnsley
4. Littleboro' Public
5. Stalybridge
6. Oldham Rifles

 
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887

"Il Giuramento" (Mercadante)

1. Littleboro' Public
2. Burslem
3. Honley
4. Oldham Rifles
5. Besses-O'th-Barn
6. Stocksbridge

"La Gazza Ladra" (Rossini)

1. Honley
2. Oldham Rifles
3. Black Dyke
4. Linthwaite
5. Littleboro'
6. Besses-O'th-Barn

"Nabucodonosor" (Verdi)

1. Kingston Mills
2. Littleboro'
3. Besses-O'th-Barn
4. Oldham Rifles
5. Honley
6. Accrington

"La Favorita" (Donizetti)

1. Kingston Mills
2. Heywood Rifles
3. Littleboro' Pub.
4. Honley
5. Stocksbridge
6. Glossop Voluntrs.

"L'Etoile du Nord" (Meyerbeer)

1. Kingston Mills
2. Black Dyke
3. Besses-O'th-Barn
4. Honley
5. Leeds Forge
6. Todmorden Old

 
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892

"Der Fliegende Hollander" (Wagner)

1. Wyke Temp.
2. Black Dyke
3. Todmorden
4. Wyke Old
5. Oldham Rifles
6. Rochdale Amtr.

"La Reine de Saba" (Gounod)

1. Wyke Temp.
2. Kingston Mills
3. Leeds Forge
4. Stocksbridge
5. Todmorden Old
6. Linthwaite

"Euryanthe" (Weber)

1. Batley Old
2. Leeds Forge
3. Wyke Temp.
4. Black Dyke
5. Linthwaite
6. Kingston Mills

"Das Nachtelager in Granada" (Kreutzer)

1. Black Dyke
2. Wyke Temp.
3. Dewsbury Old
4. Besses-O'th-Barn
5. Lindley
6. Linthwaite

"Zaar und Zimmermann" (Lortzing)

1. Besses-O'th-Barn
2. Kingston Mills
3. Lindley
4. 1st Glamorgan
5. Oldham Rifles
6. Batley Old

 
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897

"Elaine" (Bemberg)

1. Kingston Mills
2. Cornholmw
3. Rochdale Old
4. Batley Old
5. Denton Original
6. Kettering Town

"The Golden Web" (Goring Thomas)

1. Besses-O'th-Barn
2. Kingston Mills
3. Black Dyke
4. Wyke Temp.
5. Goodshaw
6. Mossley

"Hansel und Gretel" (Engelbert) Humperdinck's Opera)

1. Black Dyke
2. Wyke Temp
3. Besses-O'th-Barn
4. Rushden Temp
5. Lindley
6. Mossley

"Gabriella" (Pizzi)

1. Black Dyke
2. Kingston Mills
3. Batley Old
4. Lindley
5. Wyke Temp
6. Besses-O'th-Barn

"Moses in Egypt" (Rossini)

1. Mossley
2. Kingston Mills
3. Batley Old
4. Pemberton Old
5. Lindley
6. Luton Red Cross

 
1898
1899

   

"Grand Fantasia" from the works of Mendelssohn

1. Wyke Temp.
2. Huncknall Temp.
3. Lea Mills
4. Batley Old
5. Kettering Rifles
6. Crooke

"Aroldo" (Verdi)

1. Black Dyke
2. Hucknall Temp.
3. Lee Mount
4. Crook
5. Lea Mills
6. Mossley

     

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NOTE: The information on this page was generously supplied by Lorraine Watts