Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Athletes and acrobats wow the crowds at the annual Cycling Club carnival.

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

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