Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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

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...

A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of t...

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

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.

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

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 bel...

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 it...

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

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

These evocative scenes of Edwardian Dublin include views of the old houses of parliament (later home to the Bank of Ireland),and the gates of Trinity...

As well as its extensive railway network, Cork was served by an impressive tramway system, which was just four years old when this film was made. As t...

Early football footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

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

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

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition togethe...

A short documentary of mild curiosity value showing a group of Blackburn school children passing before the camera.

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

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park.