Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

Turn of the century rugby league.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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

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

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

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

Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were...

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

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

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of...

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...

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

Athletes and acrobats wow the crowds at the annual Cycling Club carnival.