Mitchell Kenyon Filmes

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

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

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

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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

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...

Early football footage from Mitchell & 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...

Thousands of people got together on Easter Monday for the traditional egg rolling.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A beautiful shot of a locomotive billowing smoke begins this very evocative film. As the train pulls in to the terminus the camera is positioned...

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

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

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

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

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's not easy to view these beguiling scenic shots without burdening them with our knowledge of history. The pivotal site of Irish emigration,...