| Year |
Second Section Champions |
Conductor |
Test Piece |
| 2007 | Newbridge (Celynen) | Paul Holland | Tocatta, Elegy and Scherzo - Darrol Barry |
| 2006 | St. Dennis | Brian Minear | Gothic Dances - Alan Fernie |
| 2005 | St Keverne | D. Greenwood | The Belmont Variations – Arthur Bliss |
| 2004 | Hathern | D Newmann | Chaucer's Tunes – Michael Ball |
| 2003 | Hatfield Coal Power | G. O'Connor | Sunset Rhapsody - Eric Ball |
| 2002 | Hade Edge | Simon Wood | Danceries - Kenneth Hesketh |
| 2001 | Ammanford Town | Jim Davies | Diversions - P Sparke |
| 2000 | Oldham Brass 97 | Andrew White | Abstractions - T Aagaard-Nilsen |
| 1999 | Holme Silver | Duncan Beckley | Three Figures - H Howells |
| 1998 | Ashton-Under-Lyne | M Evans | Capriccio - K Downie |
| 1997 | Bathgate | C McKenzie | Symphony for Brass "Apocalypse" - W Gordon |
| 1996 | Beresford Colliery | H Megarrel | The Aeronauts - G Richards |
| 1995 | Glossop Old | J Cant | The Plantagenets - E Gregson |
| 1994 | Chapeltown Silver | D Beckley | Cross Patonce - G Richards |
| 1993 | Torbay Brass | CB Buckley | Firestorm - S Bulla |
| 1992 | City of Hull | R Childs | Holiday Overture - E Ball |
| 1991 | Sovereign Brass | H McNeil | Chorale - R Steadman-Allen |
| 1990 | British Steel Stainless Dodworth | G O'Connor | Belmont Variations - A Bliss |
| 1989 | Bathgate | A Fleming | Variations on a Theme by Haydn - arr. H Nash |
| 1988 | Marple | G Cutt | Sunrise - E Ball |
| 1987 | Wakefield Metropolitan | L Hepplestone | A Leadsman, A Lady and a Lord - D Stanhope |
| 1986 | Jayess (Queensbury) | J Shepherd | St Paul's Suite - Holst, arr. M Kenyon |
| 1985 | Rhodian Brass | M Slater | Celebration - E Ball |
| 1984 | Lockwood (F Drake Fibres) | P Kitson | Academic Festival Overture - Brahms, arr. D Wright |
| 1983 | Penclawdd Brass | DA Small | Variations and Fugue - D Henshall |
| 1982 | Rockingham | G O'Connor | A Caledonian Suite - B Orr |
| 1981 | Stalybridge (Tetley Walker) | E Woodhouse | Overture, Froissart - Elgar, arr. E Ball |
| 1980 | Newtongrange & Bilston Colliery | N Boddice | Culloden Moor - G Wood |
| 1979 | Leyland Vehicles | R Evans | Concertino - P Lane |
| 1978 | Birmingham School of Music | R Curran | Down Under - R Hanmer |
| 1977 | Clacton-on-Sea | R Howard | Scena Sinfonica - H Geehl |
| 1976 | Loughborough | C Fisher | Land of the Mountain and the Flood - MacCunn, arr. G Bragg |
| 1975 | Northumbria Police | S Macdonald | Caliban - A Butterworth |
| 1974 | Spillers (Gainsborough) | G Lewis | Entertainments - G Vinter |
| 1973 | Tredegar Town | J Childs | Sinfonietta for Brass - T Wilson |
| 1972 | Lockwood | P Kitson | Divertimento for Brass Band - B Kelly |
| 1971 | Rogerstone and District | CB Buckley | Celebration - E Ball |
| 1970 | Newhall | F Woodhouse | Themes from Symphony no.9 - Beethoven, arr. E Ball |
| 1969 | Thoresby Colliery | W Lippeatt | Grand Selection - Berlioz |
| 1968 | Haydock | H Oakes | Third Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals - E Ball |
| 1967 | Snibston Colliery | F Starkley | Roccoco Variations on a Tchaikovsky Theme - A Street |
| 1966 | Cheetham Hill Public | N Coglan | The Moor of Venice - W Alwyn |
| 1965 | Mirrless Works | N Ashcroft | The Frogs of Aristophanes - G Bantock |
| 1964 | Wellesley Colliery | A Badrick | Oasis - E Ball |
| 1963 | Skelmanthorpe | J Harrison | Polluto - Donizetti, arr. G Hawkins |
| 1962 | West Bromwich Borough | GA Morris | Grand Selection - Tchaikovsky, arr. W Rimmer |
| 1961 | Cammell Laird | R Mortimer | Eroica Symphony - Beethover, arr. W Rimmer |
| 1960 | Lindley | P Wadsworth | 2nd Organ Sonata - Mendelssohn, arr. F Wright |
| 1959 | Kinniel Colliery | J Kirkwood | Romeo and Juliet - Gounod, arr. G Hawkins |
| 1958 | Slaithwaite | N Thorpe | Macbeth - D Rimmer |
| 1957 | Langley | D Masters | Four Preludes - E Ball |
| 1956 | Pontardulais Town | C Ward | Sirius - F Wright |
| 1955 | Chapel-en-le-Frith | JA Cooke | Ajanta (The Forgotten Maiden) - H Uljee |
| 1954 | Wharncliffe Silver | E Hoole | Call of the Sea - E Ball |
| 1953 | British Legion (Oldham) | L Lamb | King Lear - D Rimmer |
| 1952 | Royston New Moncton Colliery | W Foster | Springtime Suite - H Morris |
| 1951 | Lewis Merthyr | OD Jones | The English Maiden - E Ball |
| 1950 | Hoo Silver | E Ball | Three Brass Band Studies - P Catelinet |
| 1949 | Rhyl Silver | R Little | Sirius - F Wright |
| 1948 | Markham Main Colliery | E Griffiths | Four Preludes - E Ball |
| 1947 | Hetton Silver | G Scorer | Sinfonia Pastorale - H Geehl |
| 1946 | Pressed Steel Fisher | G Cave | 2nd Movement, Symphony no.6 - Tchaikovsky, arr. F Wright |
| 1945 | Camborne Town | AW Parker | Kenilworth - A Bliss |
The National Brass Band Championships