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*The Free Church Mission for Girls Vernacular School est 1882 in Aditvar Peth
*The Bene-Israel Girls Vernacular School in Rastya Peth est 1882
*The 'posher' schools in Poona in the 1940s : Protestant schools were Bishops School for boys and St Marys School for girls. Both these were adjacent to St Mary's Anglican Church; Catholic Schools were the Convent of Jesus and Mary for girls and St VIncents for boys. Both were adjacent to St Xaviers Church.<ref>Taylor. , Rosemary.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929040046/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1315599/ Public schools in India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 10 March 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2019, archived.</ref>
==Hospitals==
*Kirkee Memorial for 1,800 servicemen who died in India during the First World War, who are buried in civil and cantonment cemeteries in India and Pakistan
*Kirkee War Cemetery contains 1668 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War - many graves have been reinterred at Kirkee from other sites in western and central India
*St Sepulchre's Cemetery. See FIBIS Resources above for images and transcriptions. Thought to contain both Protestant and Roman Catholic graves.<ref>James, Leslie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929031355/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/4206490/ St Patrick's RC Cathedral Poona] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 June 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2019, archived.</ref> In the 1980s burial registers were available at the gatehouse<ref>James, Leslie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929040355/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240628/ Anybody Heading Down The Family Trail This Holiday???] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 14 November 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2019, archived.</ref>, but at a visit in 2011 these were no longer available, and the East part of the cemetery was a jungle infested with snakes.<ref>Bourne, Edmund [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929022938/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/785919/ trip to India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 15 March 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2019, archived.</ref> Some general cemetery images may be seen [[:Category:Poona cemetery images|here]].
==Newspapers==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117002842/http://www.virtualpune.com/html/channel/status/christ/christ.shtml "Churches"] ''virtualpune: churches'', now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=146500&mode=1 "Commonwealth War Graves in Poona"]
*St Mary’s Church Pune website , archived, includes [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929042007/http://stmaryschurchpune.in/history/ History] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929042032/http://stmaryschurchpune.in/archives / Archives] with details of graves and memorials. This church is now part of the Church of North India.
*[http://www.smspune.com/?page_id=1157 St Mary’s School, Pune] Established in 1866, the School was run until 1977 by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England. The abbreviation Sr C S M V was used. Also see [[Nurse#Religious Orders|Nurse-Religious Orders]] for brief details of this order.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101222021523/http://www.veritas.ie/Books/Social_Issues/General-j/The_Curious_Mind/9781847302007/details3.aspx An Indian Boyhood: Spike Milligan recalls growing up in India in the 1920s] including Poona. (scroll down) veritas.ie archived webpage. His father was a sergeant in the British Army.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20210318090833/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1386241/Spike-Milligan.html Spike Milligan [Obituary<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 28 February 2002 ''The Telegraph'', archived.
*Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapekar_brothers Chapekar brothers] gives details of the 1896-1897 bubonic plague epidemic in Poona, and the murder of W C Rand, I. C. S, Chairman of the Special Plague Committee
*[http://www.deccancollegepune.ac.in/museum_maratha_history.asp Maratha History Museum at the Deccan College, Pune]
*[http://www.slideshare.net/avinash15/old-pune-2 Slideshow of photographs : Old Pune] by Avinash Bhondwe. slideshare.net. Retrieved 29 August 2014. The photographs are listed by number (scroll down the webpage)- enter the number in the relevant box, and click on Enter on your computer. Click the icon beside the number box to enlarge. Includes
**St Mary’s Church, Pune 176, 178-182, 292; Poster for Poona Races 609
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171201210522/http://www.irfca.org/~shankie/famoustrains/famtraindqn.htm Deccan Queen]. Irfca.org. , archived webpage, This train commenced its service in 1930 between Bombay and Poona, as a weekend special for the British. (retrieved 3 June 2014)
**[http://bombayrailway.blogspot.com/2015/03/bye-bye-deccan-queen-dining-car.html "Bye, bye Deccan Queen dining car!"] by Rajendra B. Aklekar 22 March 2015. Bombay Railway History Group
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-P.htm#Poona RAF Poona] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924070623685#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 18, Part 2, Poona] 1885
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer13pregoog Volume 18, Part 3, Poona] 1885
*[https://archive.org/details/ourtroublesinpoo00crawrich/page/n7 ''Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan''] by Arthur Crawford 1897 Archive.org. The There was a 1987 edition of what appears to be this book published in India with the title page ''History of Poona and Deccan in a perspective'' by Archur Crawford, [https://archive.org/details/historyofpoonade0000craw/page/n5 Archive.org Lending Library]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ Poona] ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908 Digital South Asia Library
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/342/mode/2up "Map of Poona and Kirkee"] between pages 342 and 343, ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.
