Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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