Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

A couple is attacked by warriors.

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

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

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...

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

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

The chaos and charm of Edwardian street life is captured to great effect here as young lads throng this West Midlands street. 'The pictures we are...

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

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

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

Lancashire children perform physical education exercises in (almost) perfect unison.