View of the interior of the Mayfair Ballroom, March 1963. The Mayfair Ballroom and Concert Hall was one of the most popular venue's in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, hosting a rock club, which became the largest and longest-running of its kind in Europe. Situated on the corner of Newgate Street and Low Friar Street, it closed in 1999 to make way for a leisure complex, now known as The Gate.