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July 24

Blimber Road

I remember Blimber Road is a place in Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son", but I forget in which chapter the place is mentioned. I need your help here. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.249.231.149 (talk) 01:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Searching inside the book finds Blimber and road (or) Road, but not together. (pp. 161, 217 and 384). —71.20.250.51 (talk) 02:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The novel is available from Project Gutenberg in plain text form here. By downloading it you can search the text yourself with any tools you like, and see that while several characters in the book are named Blimber, that name never occurs followed by a capital letter without punctuation intervening, as it would in "Blimber Road", "Blimber St.", or any other such street name. --50.100.189.160 (talk) 06:39, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Googling the phrase "Blimber Road" led me (only) to Martin Amis's Lionel Asbo - the Google Books extract here also mentions the Dickensian-sounding "Squeers Free" (a school). AndrewWTaylor (talk) 07:34, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]