Photograph: 'Pick of the Pops' in 1894

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Pick of the Pops' in 1894'. The photograph shows Mr. M. L. Lee at his home in Colchester surrounded by his collection phonographs and cylindrical records. Dated March 26th 1958.

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive, indexed as Music, Gramophones.

'Pick of the Pops' in 1894

Want to know Gladstone said in 18..?

Mr. M. L. Lee can tell you; at his home in Colchester, Essex, he is playing over a speech by the Victorian statesman, recorded on an early phonograph.

The speech is the gem of Mr. Lee's unusual collection of 500 of the old-style cylindrical records. Mr. Lee, formally Assistant Postmaster for Colchester, began his hobby of collecting ancient phonographs and cylindrical records in 1902. His oldest phonograph goes back to 1896.