Nick Owen, an English television presenter and newsreader, participated in Romany Wood to do what?
Romany Wood Romany Wood is a 40 minute musical work for children's voices, narrator and orchestra. It is a unique work that was written to connect children with classical music and to raise money for charity. There have been over a hundred performances, including two Royal Charity Gala concerts: for Prince Edward to open the new Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury and for the Duchess of Cornwall to raise money for the National Osteoporosis Society at a performance at the Birmingham Royal Ballet School. There has also been a Classic fm broadcast, excerpts of which have been performed on BBC Songs of Praise. Personalities involved in compering or narrating in performances include Michael Maloney, Jasper Carrott, Adrian Chiles, Alan Titchmarsh, Timothy West, Richard Stilgoe and Nick Owen.
Lye, West Midlands Lye or The Lye is a suburban area of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England. It was formerly a village within the parish of Oldswinford, historically situated within the boundaries of the county of Worcestershire. It used to be famous for the manufacture of nails, anvils, vices, chain, crucibles and firebricks. Lye Waste, adjacent to the original village of Lye, was an area of uncultivated common land but it was settled by people who, by building houses including a fireplace within 24 hours by using mud and clay as the main building materials, acquired freehold rights as a result of the passing of the Inclosure Acts ["sic"] from 1604 onwards, and it became thickly built upon. The village of Careless Green, now part of Lye but once a separate village immediately to the south-east, was noted for insurance clubs called Stewpony societies and the Stewpony Allotment Society which tried to improve conditions for the labouring classes.