Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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.

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...

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition...

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding...