Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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 s...

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned r...

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 fr...

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

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

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

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

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

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 bel...

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

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

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

Lancashire children perform physical education exercises in (almost) perfect unison.

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 it...

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