I didn't realise the pub (the Boat, IIRC?) had closed. Did that happen during lockdowns?
Yes, the Boat.
It closed before the first lockdown (late Jan 2020), ostensibly due to floods.
As I understand it...
It was a family owned and run pub for something like 400 years, so only had to generate a decent family income, without any rent, mortgages etc to be paid. It was also a seasonal pub, with the bulk of the income over the summer.
The landlady died (cancer), the next generation (2 daughters) were married, new families, decent jobs, and didn't want to take over, at least until their kids were older. The family ran it anyway for 2-3 years, but then leased it out.
The first licencee could pick and serve good beer, but in other respects, like cleaning, paying for heating, paying bills etc, was a bit of a dead loss. Shortly before the end of his lease, he did a bunk, leaving a load of bad debts behind, and after having lost a reasonable amount of the previous customers.
The next licencee was a nice enough chap, and full of great ideas, but wasn't a businessman, and wouldn't take advice. The notion of planning income & expenditure was foreign to him. The grand idea that killed the pub was taking on the Haw Bridge inn as well, and when that failed, taking with it all of the landlord's funds, the Boat was basically trying to fund new stocks of food & beer out of the previous week's takings, which gave a steady decline, and no chance of recovery from the flood in Jan 2020.
Since then, it's just been sat empty, with no news of any sort.