Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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.

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

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.

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 breathtaking winter journey in the Pennines, from country to town and back again via electric tram.

An Edwardian football match at Newcastle's St James' Park ground.