The pole line in the background was completed by 1919 and was an additional electricity source for the Hull Light Plant, a municipal utility along the south-of-Boston coastline. This is a very rare photograph of it as it traversed through a backyard in neighboring Hingham, MA. It originally operated at 7 or 13kv and employed many Thomas two-piece multipart insulators before its rebuild to 23kv in the mid-to-late 1930s. The original line was built using solid copper wire and two-over-four-pin crossarm construction. Upon its upgrade, beefy cedar poles were then used alongside roadway stretches with Locke-1035 multiparts; four on the upper 10-foot-long crossarm and two on equally-sized, creosoted crossarms beneath supported by galvanized steel, angled "chicken-wing" braces. "K-frame" double construction employing two 10-inch suspension insulators per conductor were through wooded areas. A few of the poles from this rebuild as well as much of the heavy-duty twisted-copper wire are still in service (owned by a private utility to the town line) serving Hull which has about 6,300 customers, mostly residential.

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