Mitchell Kenyon Filmes

These short scenes were filmed in January 1902 in and around Wexford's Bull Ring market, capturing an array of local characters, including a cheery...

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

A beautiful shot of a locomotive billowing smoke begins this very evocative film. As the train pulls in to the terminus the camera is positioned...

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

The pedestrians are either engrossed by the camera or dodging traffic in this busy thoroughfare in Cork. St Patrick Street buzzes with electric...

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

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

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...

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

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

Did he bowl or did he throw? A fascinating record of an early cricketing controversy.

Silent film.

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

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...

This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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...

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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