Year

Band

Otherwise

Appearances

At the inaugural contest in 1988 all bands played in a single class

1988

Easingwold Town

1

Harrogate

12

Kirkbymoorside Town

21

Knaresborough Silver

6

Swinton & District Excelsior

19

Wakeman Brass

Theakston Wakeman Brass

3

York Railway Institute

York Railway Institute Intercity

11

York R. I. Golden Rail

4

The Format of the contest was changed.  Class “A” was open to Championship to 2^nd section bands (National gradings) and Class “B” to 3^rd and 4^th section bands, though in early contests a few 3^rd and 4^th section bands contested in Class “A”

1989

East Yorkshire Brass

Aunt Bessie’s East Yorkshire Brass
East Riding Yorkshire Brass

11

Micklefield Brass

1

Ripon City

5

South Bank Brass

(non-member by invitation)

1

Yorkshire Evening Post

4

1990

British Steel Stainless Dodworth

1

Cottingham

4

Kippax (Allerton Bywaters Workshops N.U.M.)

Selby Coalfield Kippax
Kippax R.I.B.
Kippax

5

Northallerton District

1

Stape Silver

19

Wallace Arnold (Rothwell)

1

1991

Billingham Silver

9

Hatfield Main Colliery

Hatfield Coal Co.

4

Horbury Victoria

4

Knottingley Silver

6

Rothwell Temperance “B”

Rothwell Temperance

4

Rowntree Brass

Nestle Rowntree
Shepherd Building Group Brass

11

Tingley

Tingley Thornhill

2

1992

ASDA Manufacturing Brass

1

Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes

3

Thurcroft Welfare

2

Wakefield Metropolitan

7

1993

Beverley Borough

1

Wetherby & District Silver

9

1994

British Steel Teeside

3

1995

Barrow Concert

6

Marsden Silver

6

South Milford Brass

6

Tewit Youth

1

Yorkshire Co-op Jayess

Yorkshire Co-operatives
United Co-op Yorkshire  
Yorkshire Co-op

7

Barnsley Building Society

2

1996

Gawthorpe Brass ‘85

3

Lingdale Silver

1

1997

Chapeltown Silver

4

City of Sheffield

1

Elland Silver

1

Maltby Miners’ Welfare

4

In 1998 the format was again changed to include Class “C” for unregistered Bands

1998

Clifton & Lightcliffe Youth, “B”

3

Gawthorpe Brass

2

Langbaurgh Brass

2

Northumbria Police

1

Sherburn & District

2

1999

Bedale Brass

1

Clifton & Lightcliffe

2

2001

Ebor Brass

1

South Yorkshire Police

2

Tingley Youth

2

2002

Bilsdale Silver

3

Dinnington Colliery

1

Drighlington

2

East Yorkshire Motor Services

1

Lockwood Brass

4

2003

Dinnington Colliery Training

1

Nestle Rowntree “B”

Shepherd Building Group Concert

4

2004

Darley Dale

1

Emley Brass

5

Golcar

4

Northallerton Silver

2

Thurcroft Training

1

2005

Barton Town

2

Stocksbridge Brass

1

Strata Brass

1

2006

Friendly Band Sowerby Bridge

1

Innovate Skelmanthorpe “B”

1

Leyburn

1

Marske Brass

1