Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A breathtaking winter journey in the Pennines, from country to town and back again via electric tram.

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

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...

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

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

Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were...

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

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place.

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...

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.