A couple of short Mitchell and Kenyon films from the BFI archives.
It's Wigan in 1902, and it's all good humour and laughs as a steam tram sets off:
Across t'Pennines the mood darkens. It's 1901 at the Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham, and folk aren't so friendly:
We wuz allus hard basstards in South Yorkshire.
For something completely different, you may care to join Reginald Foort at the Ambassador Cinema in Hounslow, as he invites us on an extended river trip, in Songs of the Organ, from 1942.
Mick Hartley 
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