PASSAGIUM REGINAE The - Royal Dunfermline

not have wished for a more peaceful, secluded spot in which to sleep. From it
the path leads west, skirting the sea, and presently reaches Brucehaven, the
eastmost of the two harbours which Limekilns boasts. It consists of a
space between two parallel spits of rock, on one of which a stone pier called the
Capernaum pier, now somewhat damaged, has been built for greatef protection
from he west. At low tide the boats lying in the harbour are left high and dry.
As for the word Capernaum (shoes local pronunciation sounds like Copp‟rnom)
it seems to embrace the whole of the eastern extremity of the village. There is
an old shipbuilding yard here, but it has become grass-grown long since and is
now clean deserted, except for an occasional boat or two being patched up by a
local cabinet-maker.
Farther on are the ruins of a large brewery, formerly famous for its Elgin
Ales, and then comes the „Panhouse,‟ no longer a salt-making concern, and
never a large one at that , but an interesting relic withal, and one that dates from
1613. At the point where Dunfermline Road reached the coast stands „The
Hollies,‟ a snug little house with double bow-windows. Now the property of
Lord Wavertree, it formerly belonged to Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, his father,
who came by it through his wife and it was here in December 1856 that his lady
gave birth unexpectedly to the future peer. The house, which has in recent
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