Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

An epic tour of the places and people of Edwardian Bradford.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned...

Crowds enjoying the spectacle at Birmingham Athletics Club.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

Thousands of people got together on Easter Monday for the traditional egg rolling.

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

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

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

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

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