Mitchell & Kenyon

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Old film taken in Lancashire, North England in May 1904.

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked Westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured Boxer rebel.

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

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.

Thousands of people got together on Easter Monday for the traditional egg rolling.

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

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

Rare film record of an Edwardian local league cricket game between two Lancashire sides.

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

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

Evocative film of the passengers and crew of a ship docked at Liverpool.