Mitchell Kenyon Movies

The evolution of Rugby League in a top of the table match between rival Lancashire clubs.

Edwardian crowds enjoy a fancy-dress swimming race.

Edwardian cycling competition.

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 t...

Likely a popular routine from Percy Honri's musical theatre show. His face is seen poking through a blackout curtain, made up as the man in the moon....

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

Silent film.

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

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

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

This journey down the Avon gorge was filmed from the riverbank, from a boat and from the Portishead railway. Among views of the estuary, the cargo shi...

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

These short scenes were filmed in January 1902 in and around Wexford's Bull Ring market, capturing an array of local characters, including a cheery fi...

These evocative scenes of Edwardian Dublin include views of the old houses of parliament (later home to the Bank of Ireland),and the gates of Trinity...