Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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.

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

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...

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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...

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

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.

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

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

A delightful day out on the water as Edwardian rowers mess about on the River Hull.