Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Mitchell & Kenyon.

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...

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

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

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...

It's not easy to view these beguiling scenic shots without burdening them with our knowledge of history. The pivotal site of Irish emigration,...