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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…

Ardgowan Hotel served as an accommodation to many soldiers during World War II, including Józef Kozacki, a portable mine detector inventor. Kozacki was a signals officer of the First Polish Army which stationed in St. Andrews. After a mine…

The Ardgowan was designed by the famous Scottish architect, George Rae, and was built in 1847.

Medicine graduate from St Andrews. Received Victoria Cross for his 'valour during the Indian mutiny.'

Pharmacist, together with William Smith, providing photographers with materials also learnt art of photography place of former chemistry shop known, photograph available