Joe Robertson Media Archive Looking back it seems a long time since I opened my first restaurant/bar in Newcastle’s Bigg Market. In 1977, Pumphreys Restaurant and Ricks Cocktail Bar sprang to life. They followed thick and fast City Vaults, Maceys, Masters, Berlins,...
Joe Robertson and John Hall are commercial cult heroes on Tyneside, feeding the impression that, despite the dole queues, Thatcherism is working. Now they want to take control of Newcastle United Football Club. By Johnathan Foster. On Wednesday Joe Robertson’s gold...
Tycoons of the Giro Economy Peter Hetherington profiles three men who are proving that money and reputations can still be made in Britain’s hardest-hit region, the North-east The large white Mercedes – Joe 5 – draws up outside Joe’s prestige cocktail bar, a chrome and...
Joe Robertson Media Archive Jumping Geordies At 11 o’clock on a windy Friday night in Newcastle, all good citizens should be tucked up in front of their videos. But the Bigg Market and the Groat Market are as crowded as at rush hour. Segregated packs of boys and girls...
Joe Robertson Media Archive WARNING comedy use of bad language. Viz magazine in Parody of Geordie entrepreneur Joe Robertson of Newcastle now resident in...
