Lorne Historical Society News
School Bus Stop
February 11, 2025 A new bus stop was constructed on Smith Street.
Festival of Performing Arts
October 16, 2024 The Lorne Business & Tourism Association organised the inaugural Lorne Festival of Performing Arts; 50’s – 60’s Culture By The Sea in 2011. The festival continue annually until 2019.
B57 Plane Crash
October 14, 2024 On Tuesday 16th October 1962 two U.S. Air Force crew, Lieutenant Harold Sprague 27 (pilot) and Lieutenant Bobby Edward Gelbrecht 26 (navigator), both of the 57th Weather Squadron USAF, were killed in a tragic crash. The B57 crash was about 2.5 miles (4 km) offshore in Bass Strait, between Lorne and Airey’s Inlet. The plane...Read more
Post Office Demolished
September 17, 2024
Teddy’s Lookout Compass
September 17, 2024 Compass was donated by Friends of Queen’s Park
Laundry Service Closed
September 17, 2024
Bi-plane lands on Lorne Foreshore
July 23, 2024 Pioneer aviator R.G. Carey landed on the beach near the mouth of the Erskine River in a Maurice Farman Shorthorn bi-plane and gave the locals joyrides.
Camouflage Nets made by Lorne Volunteers
May 5, 2024 Mrs Kenrick received a letter from Commonwealth of Australia, signed by the minister for the Army, F. M. Forde. The letter acknowledges the production of camouflage nets for the Army.
