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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

One long traveling shot through a sea front lined with tourists, workers, and sundry others.

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 its two main stations. The sequence follows the same route as today's Nottingham Express Transit tramway, taking the viewer along Listergate and Wheelergate into Old Market Square before turning right into Long Row and on into Queen Street.

The earliest surviving Merseyside derby on film catches two of Everton's goals in a 3-1 home win.

Rugby league footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

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

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.

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

The chaos and charm of Edwardian street life is captured to great effect here as young lads throng this West Midlands street. 'The pictures we are taking will be shown Monday Jan 13th', proclaims the showman's advert. The medley of flat caps, bowlers, boaters and top hats offers engaging vivid social insight, showing the classes mingling together yet clearly defined.

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

Silent film.

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