Fournier Street - Wikipedia Fournier Street, formerly Church Street, is a street of 18th-century houses in Spitalfields in the East End of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and runs between Commercial Street and Brick Lane. The street is named after a man of Huguenot extraction, George Fournier. Fournier Street London. Showing the ever changing face of London. People move in and people move out.It is a continuing cycle. The clock on the old church states Umbra Sumus
Quo pater Aeneas, quo dives Tullus et Ancus, Pulvis et umbra sumus. Yet the moons are fast to make good their heavenly losses; We, when we have fallen to Where good Aeneas and wealthy Tullus, and Ancus Are dust and shadow. A better line: Immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum Quae rapit hora diem. Lest you hope for immortal things, the year warns you, and the hour, That hurries away the kindly day. Horace, Ode VII { As found on the internet, my O level Latin long forgotten.}
