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Old Photograph Main Street Limekilns Fife Scotland
Old photograph of children, cottage and houses on the Main Street in Limekilns near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. In its early days Limekilns was mainly a fishing village, with the large natural harbour providing docking facilities for small to medium transport and cargo ships. For many centuries Limekilns was also the northern terminus for a ferry linking it to Bo'ness on the southern side of the Forth. This found an echo in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped: and it was from Limekilns that David Balfour and Alan Breck were carried across the Forth in a rowing boat. Soap was also produced from a soapworks located near Caupernaum Pier. The years of industrial decline meant that most of these industries were lost and Limekilns became just another sleepy coastal village.
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