Plug Riots blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: The First General Strike, 1842 Originated in this area, beginning as a movement of resistance to the imposition of wage cuts in the mills, also known as the 'Plug Riots' it spread to involve nearly half a million workers throughout Britain and represented the biggest single exercise of working class strength in nineteenth century Britain. Recorded plaque organisation: Tameside Metropolitan Borough.

The Plug Riots, originating in 1842, were a significant labor uprising where workers removed plugs from steam boilers to halt machinery, leading nearly half a million British workers to strike and marking a pivotal moment of working-class solidarity and strength in nineteenth-century Britain.