Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

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.

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

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

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

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

Batley go down to Lancashire rivals Salford in the very first season of the Northern Rugby League.

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

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.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

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 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.

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