John Grundy

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**John Grundy**

Born:	Carlisle, Cumbria
Occupation:	TV presenter, author
Children:	3
Website:	Tyne Tees

John Grundy is a television presenter and bookwriter. His work is mainly featured around the north-east of England.

1 Biography
2 Books
3 Television
4 See also
- 4.1 References

[edit] Biography

Strongly influenced by reading Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England, architectural review of the country, Grundy has taught at north-east schools since 1970.

In the late 1980s he worked for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission before beginning a more widely-recognised career as an architecture writer and television presenter, especially in the north of England. He is currently a lecturer of English Litriture at South Tyneside College.

[edit] Books

In the late 1990s Grundy co-wrote/edited the new edition of Niklaus Pevsner's Northumberland^[1], part of Pevsner's Buildings of England series^[2].

[edit] Television

Grundy also founded the production company Working Wonders TV, which produced the last series of Grundy's Wonders, and Grundy's Northern Pride.

[edit] Grundy Goes...

See also: Grundy Goes...

This series (1996-1999) on Tyne Tees (also repeated on a national digital channel), partly involved Grundy becoming the interesting historical characters found in the histories of the buildings he visited.

[edit] Townscape

Townscape was on BBC One North East & Cumbria.

[edit] Grundy's Wonders

Main article: Grundy's Wonders

In another, longer-running Tyne Tees series, Grundy explored architecture in the north-east, as well as Cumbria and Yorkshire.

[edit] Travels with Pevsner

This BBC Four series involved Grundy visiting places visited by Nikolaus Pevsner during his ambitious review of English architecture in the 1950s and 1960s.