Lorne Historical Society News
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.
Surfing at Lorne
April 29, 2024 Louis Whyte from Geelong, filmed by Frank Beaureapaire in 1920, surfing at Lorne, using a redwood surfboard bought from the famous Duke Kahanamoku, Waikiki beach, Hawaii. Whyte is believed to be the first person to ride a stand up surfboard in Lorne.
People Evacuated from Malaya to Lorne
April 15, 2024 British citizens were evacuated from Malaya and billeted at Argyll House, children attended Lorne School. (See Argyll House for more information.)
INDIGENOUS HERITAGE
April 13, 2024 The Indigenous custodians of the land that makes up the Otway Ranges is believed to be the Gadubanud people. Their connection to land stretches back thousands of years as evidenced by the aboriginal middens around Lorne. It is hard in the twenty first century to agree on ‘the facts’ about life in what is called...Read more
Hooded Plovers
March 15, 2024 For the first time in recorded history, Hooded Plovers have chosen to breed and raise two chicks on Lorne’s famous beach. The chicks were protected by an exclusion zone between the rock groyne and Erskine river estuary.
