Trussing The Cooper (1956)

Whitbread s City Brewery, London. Barbaric looking British tradition of Trussing the Cooper an initiation ceremony for apprentice beer barrel makers that hasn t changed since the 14th century. The Society of Coopers perform this ceremony once an worker has completed five years apprenticeship good sequence showing workers ringing in the apprentice and performing the rituals of the ceremony. Jim Elliott of Dagenham is put into a barrel and covered with dirty water and a barrel of muck. The wor