Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of...

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

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

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

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

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

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

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition...