The family's house overlooked the seafront meaning they were inadvertently entertained by a brass band during the summer.
He began his working life as a bank clerk and was a conscientious objector during World War II.
[2] At the end of the war, Saul met The Times music critic, Frank Howes, who encouraged him to pursue his idea for a national sound archive.
[3] The Association of Libraries and Information Bureaux (Aslib) held a conference on the need for a national sound archive in 1947 resulting in the a working committee being established chaired by Howes.
[3] At the time, Lord Boyle of Handsworth, who was Financial Secretary to the Treasury when the Archive received government funding in the early 1960s, described Patrick Saul's career as one of "quite exceptional modesty and humility on the one side and ruthless determination on the other.