Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery

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.

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

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

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 September 1902, as part of the city's coronation celebrations. The procession starred the fabulously voluptuous and successful London Hippodrome actress Vera Guedes as Godiva. The film begins with a lingering shot of Godiva, in her flesh-coloured dress, on her horse highlighting her significance in the procession. The remaining extracts lose her as a focus, as the procession is used as a vehicle to exhibit local trade.

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.

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

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 believed to be the first Western film, pre-dating Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery by four years.