Mitchell Kenyon Movies

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

This fascinating record of Edwardian Nottingham was filmed from the driver's platform of a tram on a single journey through the city centre between...

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

Rugby league footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is...

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of...

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.

As well as its extensive railway network, Cork was served by an impressive tramway system, which was just four years old when this film was made. As...

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.