1895 :

August 17th after winning the first prize out of three bands at Altofts, yielding a cash prize and a trombone, the Band arrived home at 10.00pm and played a brisk march up to the Temperance Hall.

September 1st Infirmary Demonstration, three days. Gave Sunday Concert with Rothwell Old Band including Birkinshaw's Selection "Pomposo" and also Alec Owen's Selection of Rossini's works, playing the full copy lasting 27 and a half minutes (both items are still in the Band's library).

"At this concert the Temperance Band were showing the Infirmary Committee what kind of Band they were and much comment was said about the Band taking most of the time and left very little time for the speakers to give and address"

The Rothwell Times published a letter of about 400 words from the Band Secretary, Mr Wiliam Lunn, which strongly criticised the Infirmary Demonstration Committee for not publishing financial accounts of the three day event in which the band helped to raise £200.

(Nine years later the Infirmary Commitee Accounts for 1904 gave rise to correspondence in the newspaper criticising an expenditure of £19 8s 4d on brass bands etc., the comment of the letter writer being "Which evidently love to be philanthropic")