Lorne Historical Society News

1969

June 22, 2022 December, Lorne Golf Club opened on its present site in Holiday Road. Destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday 8th Feb. 1983, reopened 1st April 1984.

1969

June 22, 2022 Tuesday, 26th November, Lorne School fire.

1969

June 22, 2022 Thursday, 14th August, the RSL held a tree planting ceremony at the Memorial Swimming Pool.

1969

June 22, 2022 Lorne Opp. Shop purchased land for $5,000 at 98 Mountjoy Pde. to build their current premises.

1969

June 22, 2022 February, Lorne Opportunity Shop moved to Mrs Ivy Baldry’s premises on east side of Mountjoy Pde.

1968

June 22, 2022 Tuesday 5th March, Lorne Historical Society held its first Meeting.

1968

June 22, 2022 Masonic Temple in Smith Street officially opened, and first meeting held.

1968

June 22, 2022 Cenotaph moved to beside the Lorne Memorial Swimming Pool.

1968

June 22, 2022 6 February a bushfire burnt 1215 ha on the north side of a Lorne. A number of outbuildings were also destroyed.

1967

June 22, 2022 Lorne Memorial Swimming Pool opened in December as the “Lillian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool.”