Trip to Sunny Vale Gardens at Hipperholme (1901)
Summertime laughs and larks at a West Yorkshire pleasure gardens.
These scenes were filmed at West Yorkshire's Sunny Vale pleasure gardens for their owner, Joseph Bunce. On this sunny summer's day the gardens are full of people in Sunday best enjoying swings and rides, music and dancing. The film adds staged comic scenes (perhaps Bunce and his sons), including a young man in women's clothing falling during a donkey race, showing an expanse of frilly knickers.
M&K 588: Groups of people assembled in front of a gate and then walk towards camera. Men let people through the gate, taking money and issuing tickets
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Mitchell & Kenyon's Edwardian Britain
A miraculous journey around Britain at the dawn of the 20th Century, courtesy of filmmakers Mitchell and Kenyon.
Welcome to a lost world. These amazing films, lost for at least 80 years, offer something close to time travel. Miraculously discovered in a Blackburn basement in 1994, the films give us stunning images of ordinary life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
The films' rediscovery rewrote the story of early film. Blackburn-based duo Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, we now know, belonged to a thriving local, non-fiction filmmaking scene. Touring northern and central England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, they made films for fairground operators and other showmen to screen to paying audiences, offering punters the chance to 'see yourself as others see you'. Factory workers, churchgoers and schoolchildren, sportsmen and spectators - these relaxed Edwardians laugh, grin and point at the camera. Film brings them all back to life, as no painting or photograph ever could.
Digitisation of this collection was funded by The National Lottery.
8 videos in this collection
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Road to Restoration
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Burnley v Manchester United (1902)
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Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front (1901)
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Loreburn School, Dumfries (c.1901)
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Tram Ride into Halifax (1902)
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Trip to Sunny Vale Gardens at Hipperholme (1901)
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