Weymouth's First Backwater Bridge, Westham 1859-1920 Great achievements: Triumph -and failure. 

The struggles to build Weymouth's First Backwater Bridge, (Westham Bridge). 1859-1920 The magnificent achievements of architect and engineer, Pierse Arthur, and entrepreneur, merchant and builder Philip Dodson. After Dodson's many hugely successful works, some on a monumental scale,, failures on his timber bridge led to his untimely death.