The Alsop Family

The Alsop family made major contributions to the fabric of Lorne, as butchers, timber worker, as members and chiefs of the fire brigade, as presidents of the surf club and historical society.

: Northfleet – Otway Street, home of Jack and Sophie Alsop

: Cattle being driven by Alsop boys, Mountjoy Parade. (LHS photo 1607)

: 1937, Alsops’ Butcher Shop, Sophie and Daisy Alsop, also Norm Allen, Bill Gay, Don Alsop on horseback, Jack Alsop snr, Nash Challis (LHS photo 6077)

: Alsop family butchers, Noel, Toby, Len on fence, front Norm Allen, Jack, Jack Snr., Bill Gay Don (LHS photo 6080)

: 1937, Norm Allen, Bill Gay, B. Challis,Toby, Len, Jack, Sandy Alsop, Sophie and Daisy Alsop on verandah. (LHS photo 6078)

: Site of Lorne’s first butcher shop built on this site c1890. The tiled facade added after 1900. (Photo 2025)

: Lorne Fire Brigade, Allan Schram, Neil Fletcher, Don Alsop, Marshall Smith. (LHS photo 1753)

: Lorne Fire Brigade, standing, Smith, Holiday, Todd, Fletcher, Schram, Lay, N. Fletcher, Alsop, Love, N. Alsop, seated, Howard, Hall, Allen, Huxley. (LHS photo 1748)

: 1938, Football team (LHS photo)

: Sandy Alsop, Jimmy Higgins, Ron Allen (LHS photo 8682)

Alsop’s working in the timber industry.

: Lorne timber workers. (L-R) Albert Worley, Eddie Clissold, Fred Alsop, Bobby Wallace, Jack Alsop, Mat Grigg, Nat Gould. (LHS photo 4623)

: Nash Challis, Neil Smithers and Toby Alsop (LHS photo 5816)

: Lorne, George Huxley, Neil SMithers and Toby Alsop (LHS photo 5817)

Beryl Alsop, née Golding, came to Lorne in 1937 and stayed at Yendalloch and met and married Bert Alsop, a butcher and carpenter. Beryl recalls having 40 years of bliss in her marriage with Bert, before he suddenly died at the age of 66. The “Bert Alsop Track” on the foreshore at North Lorne was named in honour of Bert Alsop.

: 1940, Bert and Beryl Alsop, nee Golding. (LHS photo 3782)

: Lil Clarke(Lillian Beaurepaire) and Bert Alsop christening a new Lorne surf boat. (LHS photo 3192)

: 14 April 1985, Beryl Alsop unveiling plaque. (LHS photo 3214)

: North Lorne, Bert Alsop Track

: 1960, Peter & Elaine (nee Alsop) Pitkethly (LHS photo 3324)

: 1966, wedding of Geoff and Wilma (nee Alsop) Driscoll. (LHS photo 3325)

Sources:

Lorne Historical Society collection
Interview of Beryl Alsop by Anna McIdowie, 19 August 2011
‘WOTS IN A NAME?’ by John Agar November 2020