When the Sleaford Navigation originally established its wharf on the eastern side of what is Carre Street in the 1070’s, goods being delivered originally had to pass from Eastgate through Cross Keys Yard which was constructed by the Navigation Company for this purpose.

Vessels needed to pass from the wharf up to the Turn-Around Cut in what is now Money’s Yard. The Navigation went into liquidation in 1879.

Most of the industrial development of Sleaford in the nineteenth century clustered around the bridges on Carre Street, because of the Navigation Wharf nearby. One of the most important of the factories was the Lee and Green bottled water factory, both on the island of land between the two bridges (where Berkley Court now stands) at some time around 1883.

Lee and Greens safe drinking water was a wholesale alternative to beer and gin!