John Grundy (television presenter)
{{Short description|British TV presenter & author (born 1946)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1946}}
| birth_place = Carlisle, Cumberland, England
| occupation = TV presenter, author
| spouse = Judi
| children = 3
| website = [http://www.friendsofbeamish.co.uk/johngrundy/ John Grundy - Friends of Beamish]
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John Grundy (born 1946{{cite web |url=http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/your-questions/tm_headline=ask-john-grundy&method=full&objectid=19982820&siteid=50081-name_page.html |title=Ask: John Grundy |work=Sunday Sun |date=2007-10-21 |accessdate=2008-07-31}}) 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,{{cite web | url=http://www.friendsofbeamish.co.uk/johngrundy/ | title=John Grundy's Home Page (Friends of Beamish) }} 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.{{cite web| url = http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/extra-date-tyne-cruises-summer-7641675| title = Extra date for Tyne cruises this summer - Chronicle Live| date = 20 August 2014}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://friendsofbeamish.co.uk/johngrundy/index.html |title=John Grundy |publisher=Friends of Beamish |accessdate=2008-07-31}}{{cite book |title=Northumberland (Pevsner Buildings of England) |id={{ASIN|0300096380|country=uk}} }}
In 2003 he published Northern Pride, which featured "the very best of northern architecture from cathedrals to chip shops".{{Cite book|last=Grundy|first=John|title=Northern Pride|publisher=Granada Media|year=2003|isbn=0-233-00003-8|location=London}}
Television
Between 1987 and 1996, Grundy appeared as a presenter on the BBC North East series, 'Townscape'.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2012/05/08/a-evening-with-john-grundy-at-the-penrith-playhouse/ |title=A Evening with John Grundy at the Penrith Playhouse - Cumbria Crack: News for Penrith, Appleby, Eden Valley, Keswick, Workington, Whitehaven, Maryport, Barrow, Kendal, Carlisle, Lake District & Cumbria24 |access-date=22 October 2014 |archive-date=22 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022141353/http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2012/05/08/a-evening-with-john-grundy-at-the-penrith-playhouse/ |url-status=dead }} He presented the popular Town Portraits which were later transmitted by BBC Two, and were amongst the first films transmitted on BBC International Satellite Television.
Grundy Goes... (1996–99) 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. Steve Robins, who produced all of Grundy's TV programmes from 1999, left Tyne Tees in 2005 to found the production company Working Wonders TV, which produced the last series of Grundy's Wonders, and Grundy's Northern Pride.
One episode of BBC Four's Travels with Pevsner series featured Grundy visiting sites previously visited by Nikolaus Pevsner in the 1950s and 1960s.{{Cite web |url=http://www.series2see.com/index.php?name=Travels+with+Pevsner&sid=267975 |title=Archived copy |access-date=21 October 2014 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021134808/http://www.series2see.com/index.php?name=Travels+with+Pevsner&sid=267975 |url-status=dead }}
Since 2010 Grundy has presented a regular series for BBC Look North called Grundy's North,{{Cite web |url=http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news/index.php?nid=2124 |title=TV Presenter to give Community Lecture |access-date=22 October 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111648/http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news/index.php?nid=2124 |url-status=dead }} aired from BBC North East and Cumbria.
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Category:English architectural historians
Category:British architecture writers
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