 Somewhere in the middle the ideas and influences met and made the Grand Union album.The songs included stories and ideas from the area around the Grand Union canal including ‘Bad day in Bow Creek’ which runs adjacent to the River Thames; and ‘Passing Through’ about the building of a motorway through an area where Frank lived whilst growing up.‘Bethnal Green tube disaster’ tells his Mother's story of when during the Blitz of London her father had taken her to the underground station to shelter from the bombing.