Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

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.

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

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

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Believed to be the first film that features Manchester United in their first season as 'Manchester United', rather than 'Newton Heath' as they were known at the time.

It shows General Baden-Powell, hero of the Anglo-Boer war, and his family visiting Accrington.

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.

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.