Imagine Castlemaine without its Market Building. Sixty years ago, the historic Market Building faced demolition, to make way for a cream-brick office block. Not only would the town lose its architectural jewel, but the district’s small growers would have nowhere to sell their produce and, by one reckoning, Castlemaine ‘would go far to losing its soul’. Residents rose up in protest and won a reprieve for the old Market Building.

Join Robyn Annear for an ambulant account of the history of this famed local landmark and the battle to save it.