By 1951 pressure was mounting regarding the need to remove the eyesore from the High Street, to demolish the remains of the White Hart and rebuild it. In October 1952 the Board of Trade announced they were prepared to issue a re-building licence. Planning permission was eventually granted in September 1953. Building took place in 1955-56 and the official re-opening was 14th February 1956. The new Ball Room was opened in November that year. The White Hart was another business with a "Tap". This bar was close to the end of the yard on the boundary with Church Lane, sadly now demolished.
The photograph of the men in the brewery yard must have been posed as no right minded brewery worker would stand with the rope round behind him, and also unless the cask was empty, the man in the cellar was risking life and limb, since the cask would contain 36 gallons of beer. If full it would certainly have meant two men on the rope "upstairs" and the man in the cellar keeping well out of the way.
A new 10 bedroom wing was added in 1963. Most of the brewery building in the yard have been replaced over the years, having survived the bombing, they did not survive economic circumstances in the 60's and 70's