The Chocolate Record Player (1902), a Stollwerck gramophone, was a novelty toy designed to play chocolate discs. Stollwerck had been founded in Germany in 1839, and by the end of the century it was ...

Gilbert Gramophones were produced in Sheffield between 1922 and 1931. The factory was on Arundel Street in the City centre and was founded by Mr Charles Gilbert Hibbard who rearranged his initials to ...

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Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...