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Dawson’s was thought to be a flour mill before:

However, there is a Joseph Dawson, a general merchant, in the 1911 Census at 2 Main St., which is described in the Building Return Form as a grocery and hardware shop.

There are a couple of other photos of Dawson's that are not yet digitised, including this one which mentions that their motto was "that they sold everything from a needle to an anchor."

♬ Crushing through the grain In a one-horse open mill O'er the fields we grind ... ♬ Two more sleeps ...

Bentall was an agricultural machinery manafacturer www.itsaboutmaldon.co.uk/bentall/ www.gracesguide.co.uk/E._H._Bentall_and_Co Nameplates say "T. McKenzie & Sons, Ltd., Dublin", and "Bentall's Patent Combined Mill for Crushing & Grinding". McKenzies archiseek.com/2016/1884-thomas-mckenzie-sons-pearse-st-du... was a hardware and seeds supplier in Pearse St. i remember buying a billycan there for the site.

Looks like a grain grinder (not the exact same model, but a similar looking machine). So Dawson's may have been a flour mill.

Woesinger Thank you! Dawson's may well have been a mill. From online searches, there seem to be a lot of Dawsons around Maynooth, and at one time there was a Castle Dawson...

Manor Mills on the historic OSI map, where Mill Street crosses the Mill Race. It seems to be the only corn mill in Maynooth. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,693552,737776,7,9

blackpoolbeach It does, but maybe owned by a Dawson??

Found a reference to a E H Bentall in Essex Agricultural Engineers Specialities: Chaff Cutters, Grinding Mills, Cattle Food preparing Machines, Petrol and Oil Engines and Engineers' Bright Steel Nuts, Bolts etc. Founded1790 Closed1984 194 years in business www.gracesguide.co.uk/E._H._Bentall_and_Co <

Two storey house to the left is still visible in Streetview. One of the few railway shots we've seen where things are in better nick today!

Niall McAuley Thanks for Streetview, Niall. That house was apparently the old Station Master's house, or so I've been told.

I'd be interested to see this O'Dea photo, although it does not seem to be digitized yet. I think it may be beside my old primary school.

Niall McAuley Will pop it up next week, Niall - not the most exciting photo ever (with all due respect to James O'Dea), but I'll add something else the same day to keep everyone else happy too... Amazingly, it seems to be the only photo with Churchtown in any of our catalogue info! Anywhere else around your old stomping ground that you'd like to see?

That's Great, Thanks very much for uploading this. I live right next to the station and it has changed so so much since then. The signal cabin is still there thankfully! Once again thanks for putting this up.