midday
Patrols of soldiers -- here no longer hussars , but grenadiers in white -- were warning people to move now or to take refuge in their cellars as soon as the firing began . We saw as we crossed the railway bridge that a growing crowd of people had assembled in and about the railway station , and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and packages . The ordinary traffic had been stopped , I believe , in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey , and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred for places in the special trains that were put on at a later hour . We remained at Weybridge until midday , and at that hour we found ourselves at the place near Shepperton Lock where the Wey and Thames join . Part of the time we spent helping two old women to pack a little cart . The Wey has a treble mouth , and at this point boats are to be hired , and there was a ferry across the river . On the Shepperton side was an inn with a lawn , and beyond that the tower of Shepperton Church -- it has been replaced by a spire -- rose above the trees .