Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

Batley go down to Lancashire rivals Salford in the very first season of the Northern Rugby League.

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

Edwardian cycling competition.

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

Likely a popular routine from Percy Honri's musical theatre show. His face is seen poking through a blackout curtain, made up as the man in the moon....

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

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

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

A couple is attacked by warriors.