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;[42] a water works began operation in 1856; and Keswick police station opened in 1857.[43] The local weekly newspaper, The Keswick Reminder was founded in 1896, and in 2019 continues to be published every Friday.