His mother died when he was very young and his father remarried to Millie Twigg, the family living in Litherland and being completed by Williams' half-sister Olwyn b.
On 19 October 1961, The Beatles and Gerry & the Pacemakers merged to become the 'Beatmakers', for a one-off performance in Litherland Town Hall.
For parliamentary elections Litherland is within the Bootle constituency represented by the Labour Party MP Joe Benton.
And the A59 is situated to the west of the village, connecting Maghull and Kennessee Green with Liverpool, Aintree, Litherland, Preston and Ormskirk.
Litherland held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election.
From 1993 until retirement in 2000, Litherland worked in the Keyworth office of the British Geological Survey.
British jazz-rock band Mogul Thrash evolved from James Litherland's Brotherhood, which in addition to guitarist Litherland (an alumnus of Colosseum who formed the group in 1969) also featured guitarist/reedist Michael Rosen (previously of Eclection), drummer Bill Harrison and the so-called "Dundee Horns" -- saxophonists Roger Ball and Malcolm Duncan.