| Year |
3rd Section Champions |
Conductor |
Test Piece |
| 2007 | Middleton Band | Matthew Stringer | Imperium - Bruce Fraser |
| 2006 | Long Eaton Silver | Sharon Stansfield | Sinfonietta for Brass Band - Gordon Langford |
| 2005 | Jersey Premier Brass | T. Pritchard | A Gallimaufry Suite – Philip Harper |
| 2004 | Hoover Bolton | C Wormald | Diamond Heritage – Darroll Barry |
| 2003 | Diggle | A. Lawton | Four Preludes - Eric Ball |
| 2002 | Silk Brass (AstraZeneca) Macclesfield | Ken Mackintosh | Cherchebi - Goff Richards |
| 2001 | Lancashire Life Morecambe | Andrew Warriner | An English Suite - M Ball |
| 2000 | Kirkintilloch Kelvin | Raymond Tennant | Excelsior! - H Snell |
| 1999 | Test Valley Brass | Steve Large | The Three Musketeers - G Hespe |
| 1998 | Oldham Brass 97 | A White | Three Miniatures for Brass Band - P Sparke |
| 1997 | Ashton-Under-Lyne | M Evans | Dancing in the Dark - P Graham |
| 1996 | Yeovil Town | S Sykes | Sinfonietta - G Langford |
| 1995 | Fairlop Brass | K Jordan | Suite Gothique - L Boellman |
| 1994 | Glossop Old | J Cant | Partita (Postcards from Home) - P Wilby |
| 1993 | Skelmanthorpe | JS Fawcett | A Celtic Suite - P Sparke |
| 1992 | Beaumaris & District Silver | G Evans | Amaranth - R Steadman-Allen |
| 1991 | British Steel (Port Talbot) | E Clark | Variations - JW Philips |
| 1990 | Blidworth Welfare | D Newman | Music for a Festival - P Sparke |
| 1989 | Alvins (Walkden) | M Cotter | Occasion - E Gregson |
| 1988 | Regent Brass | P Fensome | Cassation - D Barry |
| 1987 | Drighlington | C Hardy | Partita - B Kelly |
| 1986 | Marple | G Cutt | Fanfare and Variations - D Barry |
| 1985 | Swinton Concert Brass | D King | Cityscapes - S Bulla |
| 1984 | Bedford (Leigh) | M Brownbill | Rhapsodic Prelude - D Lyons |
| 1983 | Middleton | F Bowker | A French Suite - Boely, arr. E Ball |
| 1982 | Silksworth Colliery | W Davison | Music for the Elizabethan Court - Byrd, arr. E Howarth |
| 1981 | Yorkshire Bus Company | E Griffiths | Vizcaya - G Vinter |
| 1980 | Askern Colliery | KR Johnson | Concertante for Brass Band - B Kelly |
| 1979 | Corby Beanfield School | D Manning | Alice in Wonderland - R Hanmer |
| 1978 | Carlton Silver | B Nolan | Caprice - P Huber |
| 1977 | Walsall Metropolitan | P Bright | Rhapsody on British Sea Shanties - D Osgood |
| 1976 | St Keverne Silver | D Johnston | Third Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals - E Ball |
| 1975 | Wakefield Youth | P Kitson | Pride of Race - D Osgood |
| 1974 | Thornsett | B Taylor | Carnival - H Parkin |
| 1973 | Haworth | J Moor | The Shipbuilders - P Yorke |
| 1972 | Wigan and District | E Gray | A Waltz Overture - L Lucas |
| 1971 | Redbridge Youth | J Ridgeon | Avalon - N Richardson |
| 1970 | Cargo Fleet | A Rutherford | A Czech Fantasy - A Jakeway |
| 1969 | Teversal Colliery | H Eggleshaw | The Water Carrier - Cherubini |
| 1968 | Pelton Fell Workmen's Institute | G Holden | Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel, arr. D Wright |
| 1967 | Rhymney Workmen's Institute | RJ Nash | 2nd Organ Sonata - Mendelssohn, arr. F Wright |
| 1966 | Corby Prize Silver | E Senton | Land of the Ever Young - G Bantock |
| 1965 | Sherborne Town | CL White | Music for Brass Band - M Dalby |
| 1964 | Romford Civil Defence | J Anderson | The English Maiden - E Ball |
| 1963 | Poynton Brass | CW Holt | The Ancient Mariner - W Rimmer |
| 1962 | Tadley Silver | G West | Four Preludes - E Ball |
| 1961 | Paulton Silver | AR Bryant | Cordell Suite - H Perkin |
| 1960 | Rawmarsh Public | E Hoole | Call of the Sea - E Ball |
| 1959 | Steel Company of Wales | WE Jenkins | Three Brass Band Studies - P Catelinet |
| 1958 | Haigh Prize | H Bentham | Sinfonietta Pastorale - H Geehl |
| 1957 | Ellington Colliery | WS Bond | Sinfonie Concertante - G Boedijn |
| 1956 | Walkden Prize | C Lightbown | James Hook - H Geehl |
| 1955 | Pontardulais Town | C Ward | Three English Pictures - A Carse |
| 1954 | Whitburn Miner's Welfare | HL Kearsey | Overture Glastonbury - D Wright |
| 1953 | Barnet | JR Stanyonn | Holiday Suite - E Ball |
| 1952 | Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery | E Hoole | Rufford Abbey - D Rimmer |
| 1951 | John Dickenson | P Catelinet | Hinchinbrooke - A Ashpole |
| 1950 | Lewis Merthyr Workmen's Institute | DD Jones | Indian Summer - E Ball |
| 1949 | British Legion (Oldham) | L Lamb | Petit Suite de Ballet - E Ball |
| 1948 | Storey's of Lancaster | AE Brunnell | In Tudor Days - H Geehl |
| 1947 | Rhos Silver | E Clayton | The Merry Monarch - R Bridger |
| 1946 | Mynyddygarrag Silver | DT Gravell | Gems from Chopin's Works - arr. P Catelinet |
| 1945 | Houghton Main Colliery | J Thompson | Messiah - Handel, arr. F Wright |
The National Brass Band Championships