Movies: Mitchell Kenyon

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

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

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

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 from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon....

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

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 believed to be the first Western film, pre-dating Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery by four yea...

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

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 century....

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat l...

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

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 the tram veers into Bridge Street the filmmakers capture an excellent panorama of Patrick's Bridge, o...

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

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal....

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry....

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow....

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....

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