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1938-1965: I M Marsh College under Marie Travers Crabbe and Ruth Morison
In 1938, Marsh died, and the College was absorbed into the Lancashire Education Authority in 1947, changing its name to I M Marsh College of Physical Education in honour of its founder.
Marie Travers Crabbe was appointed in 1938, and the College continued to advocate for innovation within the field, including being the first British College to use the Laban approach to movement. The last member of staff who Marsh had appointed, Ruth Morison, was an exponent of this technique, and she became Deputy Principal in 1953.
During the Second World War, students took on many domestic duties and ground maintenance. Some of the sports fields were turned into allotments, and air raid shelters were built. Two aerial landmines and a large bomb fell on the site but no injuries were recorded.
This letter concerns the accusations made by Principal Marie Travers Crabbe of pranks pulled by male students visiting I M Marsh College from the University of Liverpool, including ‘the gong and the bowl “trophy” silliness,’ and ‘the skeleton complaint.’
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The Limpet was a student magazine for I M Marsh College magazine, first published in 1952. Limpet is an acronym, standing for Liverpool Irene Marsh Physical Education Times. The first edition sold 101 copies on first release, although more may have been printed later. This article is a feature by international student F Iyo about her hometown Orika in Nigeria.
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Photograph album showing Liverpool Physical Training College students at The Linigad, Stockholm, Sweden, Jul 1939
This album shows the LPTC student team at the international Linigad Gymnastic Festival. Although the event was deliberately non-competitive, contemporary commentators considered it to be the 'Olympic Games of the physical drill.' Hosted July 1939 in neutral Sweden, and before the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, the Linigad still allowed Nazi German teams to be represented. Despite this, the Nazi German ship Wilhelm Gustloff was not allowed to dock, had to be anchored off-shore, and several smaller Swedish boats were used to ferry athletes to the venue.
Please be advised that the album contains images of swastikas used in a historical context which may be offensive and upsetting.
