Tram Ride Through Rochdale

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.

Passengers and crew boarding the SS Saxonia.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Turn of the century rugby league.

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

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.