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John Grundy is a television presenter and bookwriter. His work is mainly featured around the north-east of
England.
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 Literature at
South Tyneside College.
Books
In the late
1990s Grundy co-wrote/edited the new edition of Niklaus Pevsner's
Northumberland, part of Pevsner's
Buildings of England series.
Television
Steve Robins, who produced all of Grundy's TV programmes from 1999, left Tyne Tees Television in 2005 and founded the
production company Working Wonders TV which produced the last series of
Grundy's Wonders, and
Grundy's Northern Pride.
Grundy Goes... (
1996-
1999) broadcast on
Tyne Tees partly involved Grundy becoming the interesting historical characters found in the histories of the buildings he visited.
Townscape was on
BBC One North East & Cumbria.
Grundy's Wonders another, longer-running Tyne Tees series, Grundy explored architecture in the
north-east, as well as
Cumbria and
Yorkshire.
Grundy's Northern Pride has been broadcast since 2007 in the Tyne Tees and
Granada Television regions and covers the same area as
Grundy's Wonders plus
North West England.
Travels with Pevsner is a
BBC Four series that involved Grundy visiting places visited by
Nikolaus Pevsner during his ambitious review of English architecture in the
1950s and
1960s.
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