Stepney Electricity Supply Undertaking - exhibition display of electrical propaganda posters, c1929

            It is always rather interesting to see posters displayed 'in real life' and here, described as 'electrical propaganda posters', you get a fine idea of what a group of posters would have looked like to the visitors at an exhibition. The posters displayed are mostly generic ones issued by the Electrical Develoment Association, an early UK publicity proponent of the use of this 'new' fuel and that assisted electricity undertakings in developing markets both domestic and industrial.

The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was one of the London local authorities that chose to run its own electricity supply undertaking - supply in large areas of the capital was in the hands of private companies - and Stepney had its own power station, Stepney or Limehouse Generating Station that was commissioned in 1907. It also I suspect supplied the neighbouring Borough of Bethanl Green's undertaking. The display stand also shows the marvellous domestic comforts that electriicty could bring into the home. It looks very 'middle class' and in all honesty East End Stepney was not particularly blessed with such a market!

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Mike Ashworth Collection

c1929

vintage advertising

poster display

advertising

graphic design

EDA

Electrical Development Association

exhibition stand

exhibition design

Stepney

London

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney

Stepney Electricity Department

c1925

domestic appliances

electrical appliances

publicity

marketing

Stepney Power Station

Stepney Generating Station

municipal undertaking

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