Mitchell & Kenyon

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

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

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

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.

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