Manx tat

Obviously, I bought some tat from the Isle of Man. This was limited because I already have so much Manx tat from previous visits, I always buy a couple of Groudle dayglo pencils for example, that I have to work harder to search out the junk. But a visit to Peel soon sorted me out. From the Bonded Warehouse, I bought a Summit Hotel plate. 8 inches in diameter, with real gold (yeah, right) edges, the picture shows the current Summit of Snaefell. The name "hotel" is due to there being a bar inside, otherwise it's just a nice cafe with rather good cake. The building shows dates from 1984, the previous stone finish with castellations version from 1902 having burnt down in 1982. The back of the plate tells me the maker is J.Jackson of Dewsbury. The telephone code is 0924, which dates it before 1995. The second bit of tat, came from a charity shop on Peel seafront. 11 inches across, it features crude paintings of "Kissak" around the Manx triskelion. On the back we have the letters Shd, and a…