The current bridge stands at the western end of the Pool of London but is positioned 30 metres (98 ft) upstream from previous alignments. The traditional ends of the medieval bridge were marked by St Magnus-the-Martyr on the northern bank and Southwark Cathedral on the southern shore.
Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking achievement, can today confirm that Ms. Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York is now the worldâs oldest living person, who today celebrates her 116th birthday!
The Brooklyn, New York, woman has lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the school's Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.