 Within five years, the firm's annual turnover was £40,000 and it went on to become one of the market leaders in the Scottish brewing industry over the next century.In 1973, as a result of a £13 million investment, a new Fountain Brewery was opened on the south side of Fountainbridge on the former site of the North British Rubber Company's premises while the hose factory was converted to a bottling plant..In 1886 Cooke's Royal Circus was built in East Fountainbridge for John Henry Cooke (1837-1917).