Lorne Victoria Australia

Lorne people with family names starting with T.

  • Talimanidis Family
  • Tyrer, Don (2016)

Talimanidis Family

Chris Talimanidis, a young Greek chef from Thessalonica, came to Lorne and bought the Marine café at 146 Mountjoy Parade and created the famous Chris’s Restaurant. The restaurant was demolished in about 1985 to make way for the Cumberland Resort.

Chris then left Lorne and established Beacon Point restaurant in Skene’s Creek with his son Taki Talimanidis managing front of house.

Kosta, younger brother of Chris, came to Lorne and and with wife Pam created a dynastic series of restaurants including Kostas Taverna in Lorne, later to become Ipsos Restaurant run by his youngest son Dominic. Kosta and Pam established the thriving A La Grecque Restaurant in Airey’s Inlet, now run by son Stratos, and back in Lorne his son Alex Talimanidis created Saloniki.

Tyrer, Don (2016)

Don Tyrer, 2016

Don and his wife Helen moved to Lorne 20 years ago after losing their house at Aireys Inlet in the 1983 bush fires where they had been for 17 years. Don, a teacher, held a range of appointments within the Department of Education including four years as the Regional Director of the Barwon, South West region that ran from Geelong through Lorne to Portland and up to Hamilton. Don then held a range of other senior appointments in Melbourne including Regional Director of Western Metropolitan Region, Director of Curriculum and Student Services and for a short time managed the position of Director of Schools.

Following his retirement, Don was appointed a Senior Fellow at The University of Melbourne which then led to working overseas. Don was Team Leader of a range of aid projects especially in Vietnam where they lived for extended times. Don worked for the World Bank, Asia Development Bank and for the governments of Wales, Samoa, United Arab Emirates and Ontario managing a range of national projects over a ten year period.

Don is the secretary of the Lorne Arts and Culture Foundation which is responsible for running and staging the Lorne Festival of Performing Arts (FOPA) and enjoys working with a very talented and hard working group of people. FOPA will run during the first weekend in September and he expects this year’s festival will be fun with a range of talented acts being held throughout the three day festival. Tickets are available through FOPA.com.au

He is also on the Lorne school’s Master Planning sub-committee where again, he cannot praise the talent and commitment of locals enough. The committee are looking to extensively redevelop and beautifying the Lorne school grounds and work should commence soon.

While having kept their house in Melbourne where they regularly look after grandchildren, they have enlarged their home at Lorne so that the whole family can be together for extended times.

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Sources

  • Lorne Historical Society Collections
  • Surf Coast Times, Committee for Lorne Page, Community Profile by Cynthia Wynhoven.
  • Surf Coast Times, Committee for Lorne Page, ‘Our Magnificent Greeks’, by John Agar, 2021