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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-together of the Wall family from North London. It is part of 24 recordings by the family between 1899 and 1917. The recordings are from various family gatherings, comments during World War I on sons who were to fight. The Wall family a phonograph machine to put the audio of their special occasions on wax cylinders. Historians at the museum say it is amazing the cylinders have as they are very fragile and usually over time. They also say the sound quality of the century-old recordings is amazing.

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