Mitchell Kenyon Filmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Silent film.

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.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

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

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

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding...

Turn of the century rugby league.