The James Eadie company grew successfully from its establishment in 1854 and continued as a private concern until it was registered in 1893. The Cross Street brewery was visited by Alfred Barnard and written up in his book
Noted breweries of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2, 1889. Barnard also reveals how Mr James Eadie had inherited, from his father, a recipe for a Scotch Whisky Blend which he describes as 'an ancient Scotch mixture' that was dispensed to a favoured few. However like other Burton breweries at the time, the company ran into financial difficulties and had to be restructured in 1896. The company, with its brewery and several hundred public houses was acquired by
Bass Ratcliffe and Gretton in 1933. ==See also==