Career
His work mainly features North East England. 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 Northern England.
He is a retired lecturer of English Literature at South Tyneside College.
John Grundy does live commentaries aboard the Shields Ferry, which cruises up and down the River Tyne from South Shields to Newcastle during the Summer.
