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.

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

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

The exact moment when the Victorian age turned into the Edwardian age, in this public proclomation in Blackburn, UK on Jan 22 or 23, 1901.

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

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...

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

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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

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

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park.

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

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...