Up to 1968, seven chairs came from Swansea University, seven from the Mond Nickel Company, three each from the Munitions Factory, local technical colleges and the Llandarcy oil refinery.

One of the largest meetings was in 1936 when 220 people attended a lecture given by Mr Davidson Pratt on Protecting the civil population from chemical gases.

In former years a successful development was the Annual Lecture on the History of Chemistry associated with the name of Sir William Grove, the scientist from Swansea.

One such lecture was by the Nobel Prize winner Archer Martin on his work on the invention of partition chromatography.

[15] For many years Mr Bill Williams and Dr Jim Ballantine conducted a series of demonstration lectures where the children carry out all the experiments themselves to show how energy is interconvertible.