Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

The game is held up for the camera to do a full tour of the cheering crowds at Trent Bridge, Notts County's home until 1910.

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