Tranquil photo of this large old home either along Main Street or nearby with an electric distribution pole and also with a series street lighting circuit strung on it. These "gooseneck" brackets and fixtures date back to the c.1890-1910 period and were gradually replaced by rather beefy 1-1/4 galvanized pipe arms with ornamental undersupport scrolls beginning in the mid 1910s. The fixtures on the earlier old lights (as shown) were aging and became problemsome, notably with the series circuit connections that powered them. Improved street series lights used around the town (as was popular with most other utilities commencing in the teens) consisted of porcelain fixture heads that were much more rugged, owing to much improved socket wiring and overall superior physical integrity. Some of these fixtures remained around Hingham until 1982 when the light plant replaced them with modern and more energy-efficient luminaires.