John Grundy (television presenter)
John Grundy (born 1946) is a television presenter and author. His work mainly features North East England. Biography Grundy was born in 1946 in Carlisle, Cumberland. He taught in north-east schools from 1970. He became a lecturer in English Literature at South Tyneside College. He was strongly influenced by reading Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series of architectural guides. In the late 1980s he worked for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, before beginning a more public career as a writer and television presenter on architecture, especially that of Northern England. He does live commentaries aboard the Shields Ferry, which cruises up and down the River Tyne from South Shields to Newcastle during the Summer. He is also chairman of the Friends of Beamish. Books In the late 1990s Grundy edited and expanded the new edition of Pevsner's Northumberland, in the Buildings of England series. In 2003 he published Northern Pride, which featured "the very best of northern architecture from cathedrals to chip shops". Television Between 1987 and 1996, Grundy appeared as a presenter on the BBC North East series, 'Townscape'. He presented the popular Town Portraits which were later transmitted by BBC Two, and were amongst the