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* Convent of Jesus and Mary (originally boarding, now a day school)
*St Thomas College, Murree, for boys, was opened in 1882<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=UveLzKDlZBEC&pg=PA138 ''The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj''] by Dane Keith Kennedy page 138 Google Books</ref>, probably by the Capuchin Fathers, and was subsequently taken over by the (Roman Catholic) Mill Hill Missionaries <ref>A Google Books search snippet from [http://books.google.com/books?id=JRMXAAAAIAAJ ''Into deserts: a history of the Catholic Diocese of Lahore, 1886-1986''] by John Rooney c 1986 says: The Rome agreement provided that the Mill Hill Missionaries were to take over responsibility for the debts of St. Thomas College, Murree. Capuchin sources assess these at Rs.l. 00. Mill Hill sources say the debt amounted to Rs.25000.00. ... This book is available at [http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|001359212 Harvard University Library] and [http://oskicat.berkeley.edu:80/record=b14547408~S1. UCLA Library]</ref>. However, it had probably closed by the 1930’s as there is no mention of this school in the entry for Murree in the Imperial Gazetteer of India, published 1909-1931
==External Links==
*Fifty Members of the Murree Club 1865 pages 46,47 from ''From Kashmir to Kabul: the photographs of John Burke and William Baker, 1860-1900'' by Omar Khan 2002 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qKzMQTgtNaIC&pg=PA46 Limited View Google Books]. Also refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer]] for more details of this book.
*[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2009-weekly/nos-19-07-2009/foo.htm#1 "A rock epic"]. An article by Ali Jan about a 1909 regimental rock carving by the [[5th Regiment of Foot|Northumberland Fusiliers]], at Murree from The News on Sunday (jang.com.pk)
*Three views of regimental badge rock-carvings at Cherat (Charat) Hill. Cherat, like the Khyber Pass had a tradition of regimental carvings on the rocky faces of the hillsides.<ref>
[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934). </ref>
:[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907918420 pre 1920], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783684/in/photostream 1920], [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043159_RE_171882.html 1931]
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_048.gif "Murree Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18'', page 42.
==Further Reading==
* Shaukat, Lala Rukh, "Mystique of Murree" Lahore: Ferozsons (Pvt) Ltd 2006 ISBN 969 0 01986 4
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