Mitchell Kenyon Movies

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 (...

A delightful day out on the water as Edwardian rowers mess about on the River Hull.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

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

The International Cup Races were held at Cork over three days in July (21st , 22nd, 23rd) and they marked the climax of the great Cork Exhibition of t...

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

These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned r...

The chaos and charm of Edwardian street life is captured to great effect here as young lads throng this West Midlands street. 'The pictures we are tak...

Crowds enjoying the spectacle at Birmingham Athletics Club.

Outside a fairground cinematograph in Edwardian Lancashire.

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

Turn of the century rugby league.

Edwardian cycling competition.

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 centu...

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Edwardian holidaymakers throng to the attractions at Lancashire's premier seaside resort.

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....

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.