Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the exterior of the house where he was hiding during a nationwide manhunt and re-enacts scenes of the landlady informing on him and his arrest. The film has no explanatory titles, so presumably audiences would have known, or were told, the story.

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

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.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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

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.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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.

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

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

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

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