Rural Photos ESB Archives 8 years ago Click on any image below to activate slideshow. Erecting the poles, one at at time The Area Organiser sells appliances door-to-door Electrifying rural Ireland, 26 January 1956 Planning the 792 rural areas Lights on in the 100,000th premises connected, 1954 St Patricks Day Parade, c 1954 A mobile kitchen for rural demonstrations ‘For Modern Living’: a demonstration of the benefits of electricity in the home, 7 May 1960 A mobile rural demonstration for both the home and the farm, 19 June 1956 First pole at Kilsallaghan, 5 November 1946. The delights of an egg-sorting machine, 12 September 1956 Where old and new Ireland meet, 31 July 1957 Dromiskin, c1949 Heating lamps for the chickens, 28 February 1956 Mobile demonstration, 1951 Cookery demonstration, c1950s Male demonstrator and two interested housewives, c1950s Lunar electrificationTim Slevin rural photo collectionRural electrification: then and now