Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

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

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.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

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

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.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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.