Lorne Victoria Australia

Many people over the years have made trips to Lorne. This page aims to share some of these trips so we can see how life and times have changed.

 

Centenary Motorbike Trip

At the Lorne Historical Room, on Sunday 5th April 2026 we had three interesting visitors to our Building Lorne Exhibition. They were wearing motorbike leathers and had come to ask if we could identify where the photo of Lorne, taken exactly 100 years ago on the 5 April 2026, was located. 1926, Lorne We were...
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Dunstan Family Holiday, 1939

Keith Dunstan, for many years a journalist with the Herald Sun passed away in 2013. He wrote many humorous books observing the quirkiness of the world and people around him. In his autobiography, “No Brains At All”, he recounted his memories of a family holiday in Lorne in 1939. It talks of the grandeur of...
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Sheila and Douglas Lorne Trip

Andy Turner’s folks/mother made a trip to Lorne  by bus, took some photos and collected some postcards to remember her trip. day trip from geelong to Lorne in 1949. They also did a trip there on 18th April 1948. While they were there they did what all good tourist do and bought some postcards and...
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