According to information Angus McBean left Wales in 1925 and died 1990.

Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley.
I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

Arthur Brain wrote:
Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley. I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

its jan not april the 1st ;)

Arthur Brain wrote:
Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley.
I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

I wish Angus and Suresh all the luck for the future.

Arthur Brain wrote:
Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley. I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

Your comment begs belief, you may have the surname Brain but no grey matter. Angus McBean was a great photographer and was well known throughout the world.

Arthur Brain wrote:
Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley. I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

Half a Brain sounds just about right. How rude of you to post a stupid message like that in answer to a very interesting article about a famous local man who may well have living relatives still living locally. If you think your response is funny, entertaining or in any of interest to other Argus readers I assure you it is not, which is why you did not have the good grace to use your own name.

I think that Arthur by his very reasoning is a web crawler of the lowest order, a simple brained troll who hopes to post the most poisonously false,odious and destructive myths imaginable upon us.

What was the quid pro quo there? The answer is quite simple Arthur lacks the ability to remember beyond the last two seconds of his life, Arthur's reasoning makes no sense, his only quest is to psychologically engineer disaffected web junkies to his undetermined cause. If Arthur Brain can only come out with unimaginative bilge It is our duty to the citizens of this readership to alert people to that fact, educate them,inspire them and encourage them to act in as more positive role model for younger people.

Hope this will be of help.
Check it out at http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/843/

Quote from the above article
"Angus McBean's photography will be exhibited at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff between March 31 and June 3."

"Call Mr Stone at the Memo on 01495 243252 if you are able to help".

The article already gives that information that is not quite the information they require.

Quote from the above article

"They are looking for anyone with links to his family, or who might be able to help them get information on his early work.Chairman of the Memo's board of trustees, Howard Stone, said: "It would be a very valuable thing for us to have. We are hoping someone will be able to help us."

david wrote:
According to information Angus McBean left Wales in 1925 and died 1990.

According to a number of biographies I have read online and what my grandfather told me (Also from Newbridge) he was born in Newbridge and later lived and worked in Abertillery,before leaving Wales in 1925 and he died in 1990, he was a very famous and renowned photographer, starting off his interest in the theatre I believe

In response to a number of idiotic posts....
Angus is still living in the Banyan Tree between Candolim and Calangute. He can be contacted through Bobs Inn Candolim although I do not have the number right now

Rose Bush wrote:
I think that Arthur by his very reasoning is a web crawler of the lowest order, a simple brained troll who hopes to post the most poisonously false,odious and destructive myths imaginable upon us.

What was the quid pro quo there? The answer is quite simple Arthur lacks the ability to remember beyond the last two seconds of his life, Arthur's reasoning makes no sense, his only quest is to psychologically engineer disaffected web junkies to his undetermined cause. If Arthur Brain can only come out with unimaginative bilge It is our duty to the citizens of this readership to alert people to that fact, educate them,inspire them and encourage them to act in as more positive role model for younger people.

You low-brow charlatan.
Keep your opinons to yourself.

My grandfather Thomas Young was one of the first people to cross Transporter Bridge on the day it opened. He vaguely remembers it now, but used to tell us that on his fourth birthday, the same day which it opened, my Greatgrandfather who was involved in the building of the bridge and worked closely with a French architect, took him across the bridge. As a child I remember him showing me a golden rivet which i believe was initially placed on the bridge to commemorate its construction. This rivet was later owned by my uncle Shadwell who lived in Sri Lanka until he died after being beheaded by a tribal leader in a dispute over a rubber plantation. The rivet was then passed on to his translator who in turn passed it on to his son who swapped it for a picture of Diana Doors to a photographer who was there in North Sri Lanka documenting the early struggle between the Tamils of the north and the Sinhilese of the south. This photographer Angus McBean eventually retired to live up a tree in Goa where I hear he still lives and sells pickled onions to locals. I hear that the rivet now hangs from a chain around the neck of his young man-servant Suresh.

Arthur Brain wrote:
Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley. I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

Arthur, I hate to correct you, but I think you'll find that Angus McBean moved to Sri Lanka where he met a famous Mayfair half chinese/Inuit surgeon. The surgeon (the name escapes me, but apparently a great friend of the Bolivian president Evo Morales), conducted an eye watering gender altering operation which left Angus with the need to call himself Angie. After recupperation he moved to Bolivia where he and his half brother Ralph (pretentiously pronounced as 'Rafe') opened up a charity funded sanctuary for injured/rescued Peruvian Albino Llamas. Anybody with a bit of know how about south american politics will know how **** hard it is to smuggle Llamas across the Peruvian/Bolivian border. Luckily for Angie, president Morales had a few old friends who worked in the border stations. With a few well chosen words from the foreign office, the borders opened, and the Llamas were accepted freely. A few unscrupulous border crossing brigands attempted to enter Bolivia with white dyed brown Llamas with the intention of dumping them off with Angie and Ralp (Rafe) after trying to extort money out of them to prevent them killing the animals for meat, which was sorely needed for a nearby orpanage. I could go on, but.....

telboy wrote:

Arthur Brain wrote: Angus McBean faked his own death. He now lives in Goa, India. He has a small shop half way up a Banyan Tree, and sells pickled onions by way of a rope on a pulley. I spent christmas with Angus and we enjoyed boxing day attacking mosquitoes with wet sand and potato peelings.Angus is now married to a small boy, Suresh and is looking forward to the new year. Angus asks to be left in peace and would also like people to send him money- AngusMcBeanflake@paypal.com

Arthur, I hate to correct you, but I think you\'ll find that Angus McBean moved to Sri Lanka where he met a famous Mayfair half chinese/Inuit surgeon. The surgeon (the name escapes me, but apparently a great friend of the Bolivian president Evo Morales), conducted an eye watering gender altering operation which left Angus with the need to call himself Angie. After recupperation he moved to Bolivia where he and his half brother Ralph (pretentiously pronounced as \'Rafe\') opened up a charity funded sanctuary for injured/rescued Peruvian Albino Llamas. Anybody with a bit of know how about south american politics will know how **** hard it is to smuggle Llamas across the Peruvian/Bolivian border. Luckily for Angie, president Morales had a few old friends who worked in the border stations. With a few well chosen words from the foreign office, the borders opened, and the Llamas were accepted freely. A few unscrupulous border crossing brigands attempted to enter Bolivia with white dyed brown Llamas with the intention of dumping them off with Angie and Ralp (Rafe) after trying to extort money out of them to prevent them killing the animals for meat, which was sorely needed for a nearby orpanage. I could go on, but.....

As I've demonstrated Arthur, there are other people out there who can elaborate and diversify from a serious article/posting on this site. I can identify with your wit, but there's a time and a place.
(Incidentally, what are the benefits and the success rates of attacking airborne malarial carrying insects with projectiles manufactured from finely crushed lava based rock and the peelings from a very popular tubar?