diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3f7b6088..3b0da760 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Other changes:
 - Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3.
 - Dropped `psycopg1` module.
 - Dropped deprecated `!register_tstz_w_secs()` (was previously a no-op).
+- Dropped deprecated `!PersistentConnectionPool`. This pool class was mostly
+  designed to interact with Zope. Use `!ZPsycopgDA.pool` instead.
 - No longer use 2to3 during installation for Python 2 & 3 compatability. All
   source files are now compatible with Python 2 & 3 as is.
 - The `!psycopg2.test` package is no longer installed by ``python setup.py
diff --git a/doc/src/pool.rst b/doc/src/pool.rst
index 38cd08fa..95f4e232 100644
--- a/doc/src/pool.rst
+++ b/doc/src/pool.rst
@@ -58,11 +58,3 @@ be used.
 .. autoclass:: ThreadedConnectionPool
 
     .. note:: This pool class can be safely used in multi-threaded applications.
-
-
-.. autoclass:: PersistentConnectionPool
-
-    .. note::
-
-        This pool class is mostly designed to interact with Zope and probably
-        not useful in generic applications.
diff --git a/lib/pool.py b/lib/pool.py
index 075e29df..919fefd6 100644
--- a/lib/pool.py
+++ b/lib/pool.py
@@ -184,58 +184,3 @@ class ThreadedConnectionPool(AbstractConnectionPool):
             self._closeall()
         finally:
             self._lock.release()
-
-
-class PersistentConnectionPool(AbstractConnectionPool):
-    """A pool that assigns persistent connections to different threads.
-
-    Note that this connection pool generates by itself the required keys
-    using the current thread id.  This means that until a thread puts away
-    a connection it will always get the same connection object by successive
-    `!getconn()` calls. This also means that a thread can't use more than one
-    single connection from the pool.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, minconn, maxconn, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Initialize the threading lock."""
-        import warnings
-        warnings.warn("deprecated: use ZPsycopgDA.pool implementation",
-            DeprecationWarning)
-
-        import threading
-        AbstractConnectionPool.__init__(
-            self, minconn, maxconn, *args, **kwargs)
-        self._lock = threading.Lock()
-
-        # we we'll need the thread module, to determine thread ids, so we
-        # import it here and copy it in an instance variable
-        import thread
-        self.__thread = thread
-
-    def getconn(self):
-        """Generate thread id and return a connection."""
-        key = self.__thread.get_ident()
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            return self._getconn(key)
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
-
-    def putconn(self, conn=None, close=False):
-        """Put away an unused connection."""
-        key = self.__thread.get_ident()
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            if not conn:
-                conn = self._used[key]
-            self._putconn(conn, key, close)
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
-
-    def closeall(self):
-        """Close all connections (even the one currently in use.)"""
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            self._closeall()
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()