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Posted: 15 Mar 2023

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Wash Ballocks

Wash Ballocks
I think the best placename in the whole of St John's is Wash Ballocks, right at the bottom of Signal Hill.

Some old charts, maybe as an attempt to avoid the suggestion that you'll get your bollocks washed here if you're not careful, wrote the name as "Wash-Ball Rocks." That's not much different, really, but it at least offered the polite suggestion that, say, cannonballs were in the water. Yeah yeah.

This was yesterday afternoon, before the wind pushed the pack ice into the harbour.

aNNa schramm, Old Owl, Frode, homaris have particularly liked this photo

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 Billathon
Billathon
That’s just hilarious! Reminds me of Penistone in Yorkshire. It’s actually pronounced with a short ‘e’ (Pen), but visitors love to have their photos taken by the road sign.
2 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
! :)
2 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
There is a town an hour's drive from here called Dildo. Same thing: visitors lining up for selfies under the sign.
2 years ago.

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