A resident claims the intention to name a new pub in Keighley The Livery Company Inn is misleading.

The comment comes as developers intend to start work on transforming Temperance Hall, in North Street, into a JD Wetherspoon pub on Tuesday.

The company claims the bar's name is derived from the Town Hall Livery Stables, which were housed on the Temperance Hall site in the 1890s.

But according to a distant relative of the family who ran the stables, this is inaccurate.

The livery stables were not situated in Temperance Hall, but in the building next door -- now occupied by Fusion nightclub.

Proprietor Joseph Smith built the Town Hall Livery Stables in the 1890s.

The well-known Keighley figure provided an all-hours cab service for the town for more than 20 years.

Mr Smith had 30 horses, which were stabled on the upper floor of the building, and a fleet of wagonettes, gigs, landaus, hearses, wedding and mourning coaches, which entered by a ramp at the front entrance.

Ironically, Mr Smith was a teetotaller. He "signed the pledge" and attended regular club meetings in the neighbouring Temperance Hall.

His son, Arthur, took over the stables when Joseph died in 1912, aged 74.

Arthur finally sold them in 1919 and the building became the Regent Picture House.

Keighley historian Ian Dewhirst said: "JD Wetherspoon seems to have confused both its local history and its vocabulary in the proposed name for its forthcoming pub in Temperance Hall.

The Town Hall Livery Stables was quite a separate concern and the building has no connection with the distinctive costume of a London Livery Company." He added: "Keighley already has at least one throw-away pub name in the Korner Bar, instead of the historic Devonshire Arms. For goodness sake, let's get this one right."

A spokesman for JD Wetherspoon said: "Wetherspoon employs a company which specialises in local history and they do thorough research before coming up with a suitable name for the pub. However, if it is found that the proposed name for the Keighley pub is inaccurate then we would consider changing it."

The Livery Company Inn is expected to open in April next year. The £1.7 million venture will create 40 full and part-time jobs in the town.