Ardgowan Hotel

Dublin Core

Title

Ardgowan Hotel

Subject

Physics

Description

The Polish army’s headquarters during World War 2 in St Andrews was located at Eden Court on The Scores and at the Ardgowan Hotel in Playfair Terrace, and it was there that Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki was given a laboratory, workshop and an aide (Sargeant Andrzej Gabros) with whom to tackle the challenge of designing a landmine detector by the British Army.

If you want to learn more about Józef Kosacki, visit here.

Source

conflictvirtualwalkingtour

Date

1847

Contributor

amm60

Type

Site

Identifier

351

Spatial Coverage

current,56.341980471702186,-2.8007385134696965;

Europeana

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Prim Media

702

Pin

PIN7

Citation

“Ardgowan Hotel,” St Andrews Science, accessed November 24, 2024, https://straylight.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/standscience/omeka/items/show/644.