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The National Museum of London has what it says is the first ever recording of a family Christmas, back 110 years. It is of the 1902 family get- of the Wall family from North London. It is of 24 recordings made by the family between 1899 and 1917. The recordings are from family gatherings, including comments made World War I on sons who were sent to fight. The Wall family used a phonograph machine to put the of their special occasions on wax cylinders. at the museum say it is amazing the cylinders have survived as they are very and usually disintegrate over time. They also say the sound of the century-old recordings is amazing.

The phonograph machine was discovered in the year 2000 by David Brown, 71, in his house near Cambridge. Mr Brown is the -grandson of Mr Cromwell Wall, who made the recordings. Brown saw no for the machine and donated it to his museum, which passed it on to the Museum of London in 2008. It discovered the of the wax cylinders and has spent the past four years painstakingly them. The museum said: "We tried to any noise by cleaning the cylinder first with a brush that can get in between the and once we had the best playback from the cylinder we then cleaned them up". Mr Brown said: "It's incredible how the recordings are."