Children hide behind a wall and throw snowballs at passersby. A policeman intervenes to stop the mischief but becomes a target himself.
The Snowman
Turn of the century rugby league.
Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford
The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.
Hull Fair
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...
Diving Lucy
The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association.
AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield
In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.
Ride on the Tram Car through Belfast
All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.
Whitsuntide Fair at Preston
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...
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.
University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham
Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.
Laborers in Victorian England
A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.
Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood
Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.
Tram Ride Through Rochdale
A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.
Manchester Band of Hope Procession
A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.
Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery
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...
Kidnapping by Indians
Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.
Sheffield United v Bury
The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.
Preston North End v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.
The Sneaky Boer
This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It...
Arrest of Goudie
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...
Hands Off the Flag
