Incoming Tide
- Worthing
- 1898
Congregation Leaving St Mary's Church, Dumfries (c.1901)
Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.
An apparently unstoppable flood of worshippers pours down the steps of their church. Top hats and floral hats are in abundance, suggesting a well-heeled congregation. St Mary's Church, built in 1839, survives to this day and belongs to the Church of Scotland. As ever in Mitchell & Kenyon films, it's the children who show the most unembarrassed curiosity in the presence of the camera.
Church Exit.
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The Victorian World
Vivid portraits of everyday Victorian life, thanks to the first generation of filmmakers to take to Britain’s streets.
Some of the most fascinating of early films are those which are content to watch the world go by. Numerous filmmakers parked their cameras on street corners, in parks, on seaside promenades or outside workplaces or churches to capture fleeting moments of everyday life.
In their own day, these films held a mirror up to Victorian society. Today, these images of our ancestors – relaxed, smiling and laughing, gazing at us through the camera lens - are a gift of moving history. The offer us extraordinary insights into a lost world, more vivid than any still photograph or written account.
21 videos in this collection
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Incoming Tide
2
Crowd Entering St George's Hall, Bradford (1901)
3
Preston Egg Rolling (c.1901)
4
Feeding the Tigers
5
Beach Scene
6
Beagles
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Manchester Street Scenes (1901)
8
Darwen Street Scenes (1901)
9
Jamaica Street Glasgow (1901)
10
Liverpool Street Scenes (1901)
11
Buxton Skyline (1901)
12
Scenes of Carlisle (1901)
13
Workpeople and Girls on Stoney Street, Nottingham (1900)
14
Scenes of Ashton under Lyne (1901)
15
Co-operative Wholesale Society Clothing Factory in Manchester (c.1900)
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Congregation Leaving St Mary's Church, Dumfries (c.1901)
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Congregation Leaving St Mary's Dominican Church in Cork (1902)
18
Demolition of a Mill Chimney in Leeds (1901)
19
Employees Leaving Brown's Atlas Works, Sheffield (1901)
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Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901)
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