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

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

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

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.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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.

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

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

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

It shows General Baden-Powell, hero of the Anglo-Boer war, and his family visiting Accrington.

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

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 film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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 site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and salute the camera.

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