http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/15/uk-snow-police-warn-young_n_2478912.html?utm_hp_ref=uk UK Snow: Police Warn Youngsters Not To Throw 'Anti-Social' Snowballs Taken around 1915 (well before the Alton Estate was built) showing fountain On New Years eve/day during the great freeze up of 1963, I and a number of friends emerged from the Earl Spencer (now it seems no longer there !) in Roehampton having celebrated the arrival of the New Year. The Earl Spencer circa 1915 On the other side of the Roehampton fountain, we observed a police patrol car and 3 officers trying to push the car out of an accumulation of snow which had the car well and truly stuck. Immediately grasping this rare opportunity, we began bombarding the the police with very well aimed snowballs. Horror of horrors ! They resorted to their usual police brutality tactics and retaliated with great enthusiasm catching both me and a couple of my friends with snowball blows t...