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Customer service, Fleet Street showroom, 1965-66. #Retail #Showroom #Dublin #1960s

Photographs of mast storage and assembly hall, North Wall, Dublin, February 1927. ⚡️ #ShannonScheme #1920s

ESB Housewives’ calendar: February 1962. ‘Nothing says Valentine’s Day like ‘Herrings and Mustard Sauce!’ ❤️ #MauraLaverty #1960s #February

Construction teams at work building the milled peat station at Rhode, County Offaly, 1958-1962. ESB built a number of new generating stations in the 60s following an increase in electricity demand during Rural Electrification. #ESB #Archive #Rhode #Electriciy #Construction

#OTD 1952: Switch on, Kilsaran, Co. Louth. Fr. McEvoy PP switching on the Parish Hall, Kilsaran. 💡

#OTD, 1954. Print ad, “Easy to use- easy to own!” “Perfect meals, quick, clean, round the clock service, no food shrinkage losses, using no fuel when switched off. You get all these advantages & more with an electric cooker & you’ll be proud of its appearance in your kitchen!”

Rural electrification team repairing storm damage c.1950 Good luck to all the ESB Networks teams who are on the road working to bring back power across the country ⚡️ #ESB #StormÉowyn #RuralElectrification #Archive

ESB Fisheries Morris J2 Pickup, Laois-Offaly border, c.1960 🛻 The more common camper van variant of the J2 was used to drive the Beatles to their first residency in Hamburg in 1960 🎵 #ESB #Archive #OldCar #Morris #OldIreland

Seminar for Demonstrators at ESB Head Office, 31 July 1974 #Archive #ESB #1970s #IrishArchives #OldPhoto

Views of the artificial lake at Turlough Hill during construction. This shows the intake tower being built amidst heavy snowfall, January - March 1971. #ESB #Archives #TurloughHill #WicklowMountains

The #RuralElectrification Scheme began in Kilsallaghan, Dublin with the 1st rural pole raised 5 Nov 1946 ⚡️ #OTD in 1947, Tom White, publican, became the first rural customer, pictured with Eileen Flynn putting away the oil lamp at White’s Spirit Grocery Oldtown.💡

ESB Journal, January 1960. Photograph of the dock at Ringsend Generating Station. #Dublin #1960s

‘The Sale Vans of the Fifties’ #1950s #ElectricalAppliances #Sales

ESB Bedford vehicles in the snow covered transport depot. These vehicles feature the yellow and grey livery used from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, with the updated yellow and blue vans visible in the background 🚛 c.1985 #ESB #Archive #ColdSnap #Snow #Bedford #OldCar

ESB Journal cover, January 1963. Photo taken on Mount Leinster by Peter Healy, a member of the Irish Mountaineering Club team, which assisted Portlaoise District in patrolling the 10kV line supplying the Mt Leinster TV transmitter 📺 #MountLeinster #1960s #TransmissionLines

ESB Housewives’ Calendar: January 1962. Start the year right with some ‘braised beef de luxe’ & beat those #JanuaryBlues with a ‘jam omelette’! #Foodie #1960s #MealPlanning

ESB Journal cover, January 1970, showing apprentices at ESB’s cable joining school in East Wall Road, Dublin. #1970s #Electricity #Dublin ⚡️

1998 ESB advertisement titled “Remote Control”, featuring animation from Cannes Short-Film Palm D’Or winner Oscar Grillo 📺 #ESB #Archive #FilmArchive #OldAds #animation34

Christmas cooking demonstration, Patrick Street, Cork, c.1965 #ESB #Archives #Christmas #ChristmasDinner

Christmas lights on Henry Street, Dublin. The lights were officially switched on by Lord Mayor Michael Keating, December 1983 🌟