Mitchell & Kenyon

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

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

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

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and salute the camera.

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

The exact moment when the Victorian age turned into the Edwardian age, in this public proclomation in Blackburn, UK on Jan 22 or 23, 1901.

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

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

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 from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as to get out over the water to the point where the legs are sticking up. Just as they complete their preparations a policeman runs up and insists on going out to the rescue of the female in distress.

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

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

An epic tour of the places and people of Edwardian Bradford.

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

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian 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 century.

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 two nurses from impending danger at the hands of Boer soldiers, thanks to the timely arrival of British troops. The filming took place on the outskirts of Blackburn.