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I have a re-awakened interest in pits and mills MarieM and I see that Fergus O'Connor (a good Irish name) was a key instigator in the pit and mill strikes in Lancashire circa 1840.Called the 'plug plot'riots,they pulled out he steam plugs and stopped production at the mills.Maybe the expression 'pulling the plug' originated then,also we have 'letting off steam'which may be another expression from those days.