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PHOTOGRAPHS OF ESB’S modern home exhibition from the 1960s have been revealed as part of a new website from the electricity company.
The archives website has been launched ahead of the company’s 90th anniversary next year.
It’s made up of a collection of photographs and maps that reveal the significant change electricity has made to Irish society.
The home exhibition was launched at the RDS in 1960 with the Irish Farmer’s Journal dubbing it the ‘best ever’ exhibit and ‘one of the most ambitious at the Spring Show’.
Here’s a look at what the perfect Irish home looked like in 1967:
Demonstrators were on hand to explain how to use all the devices.
Here’s the sitting room. Those curtains.
ESB had launched its Rural Electrification Scheme from 1956 to 1965, by 1967 many homes were connected so there was a strong focus on electrical devices for sale:
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Looks identical to what I paid an obscenely over priced amount for 30 years later.
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Some hipsters just orgasmed after looking at these pics.
I’m typing this from inside a bedouin tent up a mountainside in the arse end of Kerry. Doesn’t get more hipster than that. And I still think they look like shit.
That’s because hipsters are pure arse holes
Brilliant!
UndieGrundy, you couldn’t be in a better place, enjoy!
Don’t worry ..that good for nothing beard will keep ya warm and dry.
1967 kitchens were amazing lookin thats 50 years not much difference unless ya have a time machine… Whos got one?
These were fantasy concepts for the majority in the ’60′s and ’70′s
The reality was a single light bulb giving off heat in the middle of the ceiling.
A 4 ring electric eating cooker and an electric kettle that could boil dry made from copper.
But we got there in the end. Just took 45 years……
“Those curtains” look like Orla Kiley brand, you prob have to pay big money for them now!!!!!!!
No WIFI …NO likey
Amazing that ESB didn’t roll out electricity until so late, when you think about it.
What’s amazing about them?
Bare breeze block walls still look like shit.
Fridge full of large bottles Lol!
Very similar to the game Fallout, those pictures wouldn’t be out of place in any of them.
Cold. Where are the radiators.
Nice wood effect three bar electric in the sitting room there. That’d keep the place nice and toasty.
Still better than a prefab
They aren’t that amazing. What is this, Lovin’ Dublin?
But, their so dated
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