Lorne
Ocean road or Great Ocean Road is divided into blocks of land in North Lorne with odd numbered blocks and South Lorne numbered with even block numbers.
22 Ocean Road South Lorne
Morva
In 1914 Edward Stribling built Morva at 22 Ocean Road South Lorne. Morva in the Cornish language means “the seaside” or “a place blessed by the sea”. The property has been through many different incarnations and now redeveloped as a private home.
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- Morva, corner Ocean Road and Topp St Lorne, built in 1914, photo taken in 1920.
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- Auction pamphlet for Morva
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- Vera Lynn
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- KONTIKI
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- 22 Ocean Road S Lorne, Google photo 2025
The surf break in front of the Vera Lynn property is now known as Vera Lynn, or Shelley Beach. In 1996, the property became Cafe Elate. Read more, see John Agar’s article ‘Vera Lynn and Shelley Beach”, Surf Coast Times 7 March 2025, page 18.
35 Ocean Road North Lorne
North Lorne Bakery
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- Old Bakery Great Ocean Road Lorne
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- L & J Griffiths, General Store and Post Office, 1969
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- Peter and Shane Wheal outside the North Lorne Post Office on the last day before closing on 30 Sept 1972.
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- 1973
Harry and Madge Barnett ran the bakery in the 1930s and 1940s and later Graham and Helen Nelson (Sliced bread came in and the market changed) then Joyce Griffiths and family. It became the North Lorne Post Office and Milk Bar.
Sources:
- Lorne Historical Society Collections
- Dot Harris, Facebook post January 2026
