Newcastle
"so I'm guessing this Newcastle"
If they had less on /and/ it was snowing, maybe. I lived in Newcastle and the Bigg Market on weekend evenings was like Beirut, only covered in snow and powered by nuclear-strength curry and lorryloads of cheap lager.
Abdul Latif, who owned a curry house there, bought a title to become Lord Harpole of the Rupali.
Great times.