After the canal closed, the bottom lock of the Boghouse Flight (number 36) was filled in next to Duntreath Avenue, and the canal culverted under the road. In March 1999 work started to remove the infill and build a bridge to replace the culvert.

The canal disappeared just above lock 36 as this picture shows. Duntreath Avenue runs along the top of the embankment, and the little tunnel to the left of the canal is the towpath underpass under the road.

Lock 36 itself was almost completely covered over. In this picture, the wall protruding from the ground on the right is the only visible sign of it. In the distance is lock 35, still in water, with a new footbridge across the tail.

On the other side of the road, the canal emerged again. If the man who was so surprised to see me taking this photograph that he nearly walked into the canal is reading this, now you know why I took it!

By the time this picture was taken on 12/7/99, the northbound carriageway of Duntreath Avenue had been closed and dug up, and work was beginning on building the canal bridge. The canal itself is just visible on the top left of the picture, heading towards Clydebank shopping centre.

This picture shows lock 36 on the same day. It has now been dug out, and the chamber looks to be in remarkably good condition, but the water in the bottom is so far only rain water - the lock is not yet connected to the rest of the canal.

Duntreath Avenue bridge from the west side, 20/3/2000. The northbound carriageway of the bridge is complete and open to traffic, the southbound carriageway is still under construction.

The bridge was completed and the canal below it refilled in May 2000. This picture was taken 22/10/2000 from the new footbridge over the (restored) lock 36. For a year or so the bridge spanned an isolated section of canal, but once the lock repairs between here and Glasgow were complete and the canal above it rewatered, it became useful.

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