Alex was only a token member of RAF Haydock so that he could continue to play Rugby League at St Helens.
There were quite a few of the other "Saints players" there under the same rules as well.
Here are the comments from my friends from Haydock (Yickers)
1.
ask sir alex murphy were it was, he did most of his time there, with occasional week-end leave to play for saints, it was raf haydock, there has never been an raf blackbrook, allthough it was raf haydock it was only a radio station not an operational station for planes to take off and land,
2. The RAF Camp isn't 'in' Haydock. It's actually in Seneley Green/Garswood. The head lease to the land it stands on belongs to the Gerrard family (bancrupt title) whereas Haydock's head lease belongs to the Legh family (Lord Newton). The boundary between the two 'manors' is Clipsley Brook. If you go along the new 'Blackbrook by-pass' (A58) and turn down towards Haydock, you'll notice a 'Welcome to Haydock' sign, at the point where Clipsley Brook runs under the road. The by-pass side of the brook isn't Blackbrook, it's Seneley Green/Garswood.
Springfield Park is built on the the section of the camp where the offices and the naafi were. The radio centre and associated offices were on the opposite side of Haydock Lane going towards the East Lancs.