Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

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

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

The exact moment when the Victorian age turned into the Edwardian age, in this public proclomation in Blackburn, UK on Jan 22 or 23, 1901.

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 from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as to get out over the water to the point where the legs are sticking up. Just as they complete their preparations a policeman runs up and insists on going out to the rescue of the female in distress.

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

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

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat lesson in colonial history, the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly re-named 'Collins Barracks' after Irish independence.

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.

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

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park.

Turn of the century rugby league.

Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were known at the time.

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