Coal gas
The Moot Hall was rebuilt in 1813, and the lower floor was used as a market house on Saturdays. Coal gas was supplied by a gas works from 1846; the Keswick library opened in 1849; a water works began operation in 1856; and Keswick police station opened in 1857. The local weekly newspaper, "The Keswick Reminder" was founded in 1896, and in 2019 continues to be published every Friday. In an article in "The Observer" in 1978, Christopher Brasher wrote that as long as the "Reminder" flourishes, "there will be one corner of these islands that is forever England."