Duncan McEvoy

Were did the time go? Steam locomotives, coal, furnaces. Out of time. They still exist, if you want to find it. Well, the steam locomotive became a dinosaur, extinction outside of preservation. This photographer found the steam locomotive still alive in the nineties. Rejecting most things, career, education, he travelled east to find them. Then hiatus occurred, a family. But rediscovery, first of the camera, then the subject. There is always interest out there. The post Soviet East held much fascination. It still does, the possibilities are still there. In this fragmented world the time is found, in some places it seems to stand still, but never forever.

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society welcome the opportunity to host an artist on Kennet at the 2024 Saltaire Arts Trail and to welcome a wide spectrum of people aboard, not only to see art in a different environment but also get a taste of the life of a boatman in the Boatman’s Cabin.

Kennet is a Heritage Short Boat built in 1947 specifically to travel the total length of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society, a totally volunteer Charity, took over the ownership from the Canal & River Trust in 2011 and restored her with a Heritage Lottery Grant to be able to “carry a cargo of heritage” about the canal and its boat people to communities along the canal.

Find out more about Kennet and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society here.

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