Factory Gates

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Well-to-do of Cork worshippers leaving St Patrick's Church.

A view of Mansfield's Bridge Street, as worshippers emerge from chapel.

Staffordshire parishioners stream home after a service.

Preston's great and good gather outside the magnificent St. John's church.

Grimy miners head home at the end of their shift in the days before pithead baths.

Bradford boys wait eagerly for the picture show at the famous St George's Hall.

Bustling scenes in Edwardian Lancashire, outside the mill gates and on the street.

Young lads are out in force on the crowded streets in Edwardian Lancashire.

An Edwardian Leeds crowd enjoys a spectacle of wanton destruction.

Rare film of Manningham FC's days as a rugby club, in a hard-fought contest at Dewsbury's Crown Flatt ground.

Edwardian textile workers leave a Dundee mill.

Workers are marshalled past the gate of one of Yorkshire's biggest steel firms.

This Manchester 'factory gate' film has one mysterious addition...

A beautifully composed film of Edwardian factory workers as they rush for home.

An all-male Edwardian crowd is filmed leaving work in the north western town.

Employees race out of a Jute works in Edwardian Dundee.

Edwardian workers file out of a naval shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness.

A tide of flat-capped rail factory workers is ushered past the camera after a day's work.

Home time for cotton workers at a Lancashire mill.

Exuberant scenes of engineers and machinists at the famous Cornwall works near Birmingham.

A drizzly street scene outside one of south Yorkshire's major employers.

Lancastrian workers spill out of a huge textile factory. 

Victorian ironworkers emerge from the grand entrance of a long-established South Yorkshire firm.

Could the newspaper boy tell us where this factory was?

Hoards of workers funnel through the great arched entrance to Robey's works in Lincoln.

Ironfounders and engineers head home after morning shift at Pagefield Works.

Home time for grateful workers in a Cheshire factory.

Tired Edwardian workers finish their shift at a Kingston-Upon-Hull paint factory.

Workers co-operate with the camera at a Manchester print factory.

Workers surge through the great gates of a Victorian engineering works.

The lasses, and a few lads, surge out of a Victorian cotton mill after their shift.

Having worked the looms all morning, Victorian wool workers head home for a well-earned dinner break.

It's home time for men and women at an imposing but unidentified workplace - or two?

Victorian industrial workers leave their factory after a demanding day.

The largely female workforce of an Edwardian Lancashire factory parades past the camera.

Crowds of cotton workers flow through the gates of the Clitheroe textile mill.

Scenes from the summer final between the Leander and Berlin rowing clubs.

Destroyers from the Edwardian Royal Navy filmed from a ship in the Tyne.

Mourners process through the wintry streets of Edinburgh.

Countless men, women and children spill out on to the screen from "The Plant" at the heart of the Yorkshire railway town.

A rugby league game shows the sport in transition, on a bitterly cold day.

The dinner time hustle and bustle of a Salford street at the dawn of the 20th century.

A group of workers dominated by women and children emerges from a Lancashire factory.

Workers of all ages depart Oldroyd's wool mill – and the filmmakers' camera is a subject of curiosity.

Victorian cotton workers leave for their lunch break.

A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.

Shift change at Edwardian Britain's most important glassmakers, at the heart of the Merseyside town.

A glimpse of early filmmaking showmanship as James Kenyon marshals Lancashire textile workers.

Edwardian miners are filmed leaving their Lancashire pit at the shift's end.

An assortment of Edwardian workers, including many mischievous children who are far from camera-shy.

Some infectious youthful high spirits outside an engineering factory in Victorian Manchester.

The all-male workforce heads home from a factory in Victorian Birmingham.

Very early footage of a vast industrial site in Ripley, and the folk who manned the machines.

Workers emerge from a huge ironworks in Edwardian Salford with some relief on a hot and sunny day.

Widnes workers take a well-earned dinner break.

Employees of a South Yorkshire brassworks walk or cycle past the camera.

Hungry and cold, Lancashire cotton workers trek home through the snow at dinner time.

Filmed at a production plant for Edwardian ale, this unique footage carries a powerful scent of malt and hops.

An orderly exit from one of the biggest hat factories in Edwardian Stockport.

An unidentified factory is the setting for some lively Victorian characters.

Workers in Edwardian Lancashire become ghostly thanks to an odd camera effect.

Another shift ends in Victorian Lancashire, while children play in the street.

Operatives heading out of Berry's Blacking Works.

Athletic young Lancashire cotton weavers show off outside their Victorian mill.

Royal Warrant biscuit-makers released after their shift.

A rare snapshot of the daily routine of the workers of a Lancashire textile mill.

Spinners and weavers jostle through the exit of one of Stockport’s largest textile mills.

Victorian ironworkers leave their Derbyshire factory in carefully stage-managed fashion.

A rich impression of a vibrant Midlands works, in an unusually elaborate 'factory gate' film.

Weary glassmakers head home after morning shift.

Where was this Edwardian paper works?

Lively Lancashire millworkers, including young boys and girls, at the mill gates.

A Mitchell and Kenyon film of workers in their home town, intriguing despite (or because of) the poor lighting conditions.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

Victorian women workers (and a few men) hasten through the gates of the hosiery works after their shift.

Edwardian laceworkers hasten home at dinner time.

Men and lads spill out at the end of their shift at a Lancashire iron works.

Smartly-dressed men and women leave an unknown (textiles?) factory at lunchtime.

Victorian factory workers head for home, dodging puddles along the way.

A vibrant impression of dinner hour at an Edwardian cotton mill.

A well-staged exit of workers from a Leicestershire manufacturer for the transport industry.

An early film showing men and boys leaving a Nottinghamshire metals factory.

Lancashire mill-workers have fun in front of the camera.

Workers of all ages emerge from a Salford mill.

Mill workers swarm into the July sunshine to enjoy a well-earned lunch break.

It's all sunshine and smiles for the Lincolnshire agricultural equipment makers at home time.

Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

A surprisingly calm 'factory gate' film, shot outside a factory in the Ayrshire town, famous for its wooden furniture making.

Unruly shipworkers defy direction from Mitchell and Kenyon's showmen partners.

Men and boys (and one woman) outside an Edwardian engineering factory.

A visually memorable film of staff exiting a turn-of-the-century Lancashire machine factory.

The hustle and bustle of Edwardian lace-workers heading home after a morning shift.

Victorian textile workers at a mill near Manchester

Dinner time at a textile mill in Victorian Lancashire.

Lancashire cotton workers hurry to lunch after morning shift.

Employees exit a Lancashire works on a drizzly day.

Male and female millworkers - young and old - spill out after their shift.

Cheery child workers, averaging around 10 years old, leave the cotton mill after a shift.

Millworkers bustle home, except for youngsters who are transfixed by the camera.