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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

It shows General Baden-Powell, hero of the Anglo-Boer war, and his family visiting Accrington.

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

Edwardian cycling competition.

Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.

In China at the turn of the 20th century, there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked...

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

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...