Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A Mitchell & Kenyon actuality depicting the northern folk of Halifax, dressed in their Sunday best to witness and participate in a Catholic procession.

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. A hat and puppet body appears, strumming a ukulele.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

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

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

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.

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

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