and objects with links to Thompsons Foundry, Castlemaine. The minimum-security female prison HM Prison Tarrengower is located to the near north of the township in the locality of Nuggety. Sport The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League. Golfers play at the course of the Maldon Golf Club on Golf Links Road. There is also a Croquet club, and a Lawn Bowls Club. Events The town has an annual Easter Fair which includes events such as billy-cart racing, dancing in the street, the Great Aussie Scone Bake, Torchlight Parade, Parade and the lighting of the Mount Tarrangower tower. The Maldon Folk Festival has been held annually since 1974, and now is always held the weekend before the Melbourne Cup. In popular culture Much of the 2007 film Romulus, My Father, set in the 1950s and starring Eric Bana, was shot on location in Maldon. Romulus, My Father went on to win the Australian Film Institute award for Best Film. Notable residents Bill Woodfull, former Australian cricket team captain, born in Maldon on 27 August 1897 Joseph Jenkins, the Welsh Swagman, maintained Maldon's gutters and drains for one pound per week from 1885–1894 Henry Handel Richardson, the Australian author, spent some of her childhood in Maldon (1880-1886) when her mother was postmistress there, and wrote about the town in her memoir, Myself When Young, 1948 Frank Arthur Nankivell, artist Louis Boldini, architect Howard Leslie Elliott, New Zealand Baptist minister, sectarian agitator and editor Kevin Moloney and Janetta Stones (Kevin & Janetta), tourists on travel TV series Travel Guides (2017–present) Gallery See also HM Prison Tarrengower Victorian Goldfields Railway References Williams, A. J. A concise history of Maldon and the Tarrangower diggings Reader's Digest Book of Historic Australian Towns (1982), Maldon Gold Field Victoria Geol. Survey, 1904, W.M. Bradford; discusses Geology and History of the Gold Field. External links Community website Maldon Australian gold rushes Mining towns in Victoria (Australia)