Drinking Simpkiss at The Waterloo Inn
January 30th 2021 In 1975 I began working as an English teacher at Old Swinford Hospital School in Stourbridge, West Midlands. I was a real ale fanatic in those days. On my very first evening in Stourbridge, armed with the 1975 Good Beer Guide and a map, I visited two of the listed pubs: The Royal Exchange in Enville Street and The Waterloo in Wollaston. The beers I sampled that evening, Batham’s and Simpkiss, we
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