A display of strength and skill in a Lancashire military tournament.

The sizeable Edwardian audience gathered in the stands are treated to various feats of strength and skill, including men vaulting over a horse and forming human pyramids, with a clown adding a bit of mischief. Mitchell and Kenyon's camera also records men on horseback severing suspended ropes with their swords and performing a type of jousting.

A display of strength and skill in a Lancashire military tournament.

M&K 586: Members of the Lancashire military seen in Batley Football Ground, observed by spectators. Men can be seen jumping over a pole vault. Another shot of horse mounted soliders practicing cavalry charging with a static quintain. Another shot back in the stadium of men performing acrobatics for the crowd. Another shot of a man in protective gear charging at a soldier on a mounted horse with a stake.

M&K 587: More of man charing at the horse with stake. Shot of a band in fancy dress, passing the static quintain. Shot of mounted soldiers attacting on another with weapons.