Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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...

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

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

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

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

A breathtaking winter journey in the Pennines, from country to town and back again via electric tram.

Much of West Yorkshire turns out to mark the accession of King Edward VII to the throne.

Yet another factory gate exit film from Mitchell and Kenyon.

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...

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...

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

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.