Mitchell & Kenyon

Children hide behind a wall and throw snowballs at passersby. A policeman intervenes to stop the mischief but becomes a target himself.

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

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 from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as to get out over the water to the point where the legs are sticking up. Just as they complete their preparations a policeman runs up and insists on going out to the rescue of the female in distress.

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

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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

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 Western film, pre-dating Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery by four years.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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

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

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

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 century.

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.

This is a news actuality film of the former Commander in Chief of the Boer War, Lord Roberts, visiting Manchester to much hoopla.

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 century.

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