Old Photographs Of Limekilns Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Limekilns, a village that lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth. 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. George Thomson born in 1757 at Limekilns. He was a noted collector of the music of Scotland, a music publisher and a friend of Robert Burns. He was clerk to the board of trustees in Edinburgh for 60 years. He died in 1851.in Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped: it was from Limekilns that David Balfour and Alan Breck were carried across the Forth in a rowing boat.

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