Snow plow. This station at 665 Washington St. is still active today as Fire Station No. 7.

This station at 665 Washington St. is still active today as Fire Station No. 7.

The fire department had recently purchased a new auto-pumping combination wagon and fire station G, today’s Station 7, needed to upgrade the station to make the transition from horse-drawn equipment. The department was fortuitously offered the temporary use of the large garage of Mrs. Alice B Watson located on Salisbury Rd. behind her townhouse at 1710 Beacon St. Both are still standing.

The Boston Globe, September 23, 1915, Page 2

His family moved to Brookline in the early 1870s and lived in the Village on Boylston St. He was married in 1895 at St. Mary’s Church, lived at 42 Walter Ave., and worked as a gas fitter for Cousens Bros. His father lived nearby in Roxbury and ran the “Home Bakery” store at 36 Washington St. in the Village from 1902 – 1917.

In April 1899, Lyons applied to the town for the position of Inspector of Gas Fitting. This application was presumably unsuccessful as he joined the Brookline Fire Department shortly after that, starting as a hose man at the new fire station in Washington Square. By 1901, he was working as an engineer for steam engine #1 at Station D at 796 Boylston St. by Reservoir Road. After living at several locations near the fire station, he, his wife, and four children settled at 771a Boylston St. He died from nephritis, at age 42.

Photo by Partridge, Boston

This photo appeared on page ten of the September 14, 1900 issue of The Suburban newspaper.

Looking northwest toward Beacon St. 233 Clinton Rd. is on the left. In the early morning hours of December 5, 1913 (the date imprinted on the photo is inaccurate), a large water main burst here flooding the neighborhood and damaging homes.

In the center of the photo is the car of fire chief George H. Johnson. It is a Knox Model “R” Chief’s Car that was delivered to the town in August, 1909. It could seat the chief and his driver up front, two firefighters in the back, and carried light equipment like a lantern, axe, and extinguisher. It was capable of traveling at speeds up to 50 mph and was a dramatic change from the horses that were used just a few years earlier.
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