James Kenyon

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

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

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

Turn of the century rugby league.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

Attending trotting matches - in which horses in harness race at specific gaits - was a popular Edwardian pastime.

Shot at the intersection of Holy Corner in Liverpool, this street is a hive of people and traffic. Arguably during the first part of this century...

Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration...

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...

Early footage of the Lucania passenger liner.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

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

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

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

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70...

Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70...

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

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

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

Archive footage, recently discovered, shot by the Edwardian documentary film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon. Selected from a total of 28...

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

Female graduates and gents sporting spectacular Edwardian whiskers take part in Birmingham’s first Degree Day ceremony.

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

This is one of four two-minute extracts from a two to three-hour procession, held to commemorate her legend in Coventry on the afternoon of 9th...

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

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...

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.

Footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901.