Visited 17th October 2012.
By the time I got back to the car I was cold and windswept and ready for another coffee. A quick scan of my pub list and I'm off and heading to Stourbridge where the last two pub of the day were awaiting me. I made it to Stourbridge uneventfully and managed to find a parking space almost directly outside the 'The Edward Rutland' having already driven past my final pub of the day a few hundred yards up the road. It was quiet inside, definitely the least busy pub of the day. While I was waiting at the bar I had a look around the room and saw several tables still with dirty plates and glasses on them. Several minutes standing at the bar and I was still waiting to be served. I was listening to the manager who was on the phone telling someone how busy they were and how understaffed they were... Eventually I was served a large latte. The pub did hold one surprise for me though. I had sat drinking my coffee in a fairly traditional setting but when I walked through to the back of the pub I had to go down a short corridor and emerged in to a much more modern looking room complete with disco lights and another bar, although there was still nobody in there. Not a bad pub but a shame about the lack of service.
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Visited 26th June 2011.
Having obtained directions from the barmaid at 'The Quay' we managed to find 'The Lord Wimborne' without any problems. Having found it we realised how close we had been when looking for it from the car, still not sure how we missed it! It looked very imposing from the outside and we were quite looking forwards to checking out the inside. As it was we were a little disappointed, it was pretty standard inside and we didn't find any really outstanding features. This kind of set the tone of our visit. It was not very busy and I could see two barmen behind the bar talking so I was very unhappy at having to wait (for what felt like several minutes) for them to finish their conversation before coming over to serve. One of them even glanced over to me, failed to acknowledge my presence and then continued chatting. After being served we sat down consume our tea (Mrs S.) and large latte. From where we were sitting I counted seven tables waiting to be cleared of dirty plates and glasses. Fifteen minutes later and still none of them had been cleared. Not sure how long they sat there because at that point we left. We felt that by now much of the traffic would have cleared. Sadly we were mistaken and we had a very slow journey home, not even a stop at Winchester services helped because they were also backed up with irate travellers. A disappointing end to what had started out as a very promising day, next time we must remember to stay in the pubs for longer!
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