Mitchell Kenyon Filmes

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

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

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

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

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....

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

Filmed around a month before the opening of the exhibition, these scenes show work still being carried out on the grounds, including the water chute...

Beginning with panoramic shots of the Colthurst estate and Blarney Castle – already a popular tourist attraction by the Edwardian era –...

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

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

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.