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....

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 its two main stations. The sequence follows the same route as today's Nottingham Express Transit tramw...

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

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

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

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston....

Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire....

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry....

Lancashire children perform physical education exercises in (almost) perfect unison....

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

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon....

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 return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat l...

This lively series of shots of crowds enjoying various events at a university sports day was filmed on the grounds of Queen's College Cork (from 1908, University College Cork). This was next to what is now Fitzgerald Park, host to the 1902 Cork Inter...

These evocative scenes of Edwardian Dublin include views of the old houses of parliament (later home to the Bank of Ireland), and the gates of Trinity College. By 1902 the city's tram system was already electrified and this film shows a busy urban Du...

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