Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

An epic tour of the places and people of Edwardian Bradford.

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

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

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

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

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

Mitchell & Kenyon.

A delightful day out on the water as Edwardian rowers mess about on the River Hull.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

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...

A ceremonial procession through what is thought to be Western Road to mark the opening of 1902's momentous Cork Exhibition. Marchers represent the...