While at Manchester grammar school, Paul Seed took leading roles in dramatic society productions, including Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice and Arnold Wesker’s Chips With Everything.
A talented artist, he designed school publications, also contributing illustrations, cartoons and hand lettering. With fellow pupil Stephen Benson he helped persuade the school to promote art (with art history and architecture) to the sixth form curriculum and to the status of an A-level subject.
