Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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

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

Bradford City's first ever home league game after switching from rugby league football to association football in 1903.

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

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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

Much of West Yorkshire turns out to mark the accession of King Edward VII to the throne.

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

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

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

A ropey pitch and worse goalkeeping in a typical non-league football derby in Edwardian Yorkshire.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

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

A resounding win for Sunderland in the FA Cup, urged on by an enthusiastic band.

The earliest surviving Merseyside derby on film catches two of Everton's goals in a 3-1 home win.

The game is held up for the camera to do a full tour of the cheering crowds at Trent Bridge, Notts County's home until 1910.

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...

Children hide behind a wall and throw snowballs at passersby. A policeman intervenes to stop the mischief but becomes a target himself.