Crowle Freemason leads tradition reckoned to be country’s oldest - Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire

Crowle Freemason leads tradition reckoned to be country’s oldest - Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire

Freemasonry is hundreds of years old – but one of its Crowle members helps to sustain a tradition that makes it look like a relative youngster. It’s the Haxey Hood, the ancient game in which teams hundreds strong from pubs in two Isle of Axholme villages struggle to push a leather cylinder to their own pub in a huge scrum called a ‘sway’. And the man linking these two traditions is Phil Coggan, right; throughout the year the D.C. of the Isle of …