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.

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

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.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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

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

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.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

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

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.

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

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 two nurses from impending danger at the hands of Boer soldiers, thanks to the timely arrival of British troops. The filming took place on the outskirts of Blackburn.

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the exterior of the house where he was hiding during a nationwide manhunt and re-enacts scenes of the landlady informing on him and his arrest. The film has no explanatory titles, so presumably audiences would have known, or were told, the story.