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<!-- Title + intro -->
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<div class="row mb-3">
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<h1 class="mb-2">The Alpha Flame: <span class="fw-light">Story Map</span></h1>
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<p class="lead mb-0">
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A hand-drawn guide to the Midlands setting of <em>The Alpha Flame: Discovery</em>, sketched to show how the key places relate in 1983. Schematic, not to scale.
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<div class="row g-4">
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<!-- LEFT: Map -->
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<div class="col-12 col-lg-6 order-1 order-lg-1">
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<figure class="card shadow-sm map-sticky">
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<responsive-image src="the-alpha-flame-map.png" alt="Hand-drawn notepaper map showing Rubery, Frankley, Lickey Hills, Barnt Green, Redditch, and key landmarks from The Alpha Flame" class="card-img-top img-fluid" display-width-percentage="50"></responsive-image>
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Hand-drawn story map of the 1983 Midlands setting. Locations and routes are indicative for reader orientation.
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<div class="card h-100">
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<div class="card-body">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Cock Hill Lane</h2>
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<p class="card-text">A steep lane rising from Rubery, close to daily life. Streets and side roads here frame several quiet, telling moments.</p>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">The Doweries & Deelands Road</h2>
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<p class="card-text">Neighbouring estates near Cock Hill Lane that capture the feel of working-class Birmingham in the early eighties.</p>
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<div class="col">
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<div class="card h-100">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Rubery Hill Hospital</h2>
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<p class="card-text">A former psychiatric hospital overlooking the area. Derelict by the period of the book, it lends an eerie weight to the landscape.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col">
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<div class="card h-100">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Frankley & Reservoir</h2>
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<p class="card-text">Beth’s childhood backdrop. The water and open ground carry memories, choices, and the starkness of survival.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Lickey Hills</h2>
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<p class="card-text">Green relief between Rubery and Barnt Green. A pocket of space where characters pause, breathe, and gain perspective.</p>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Barnt Green & The Inn</h2>
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<p class="card-text">A village south of Rubery that feels a world apart. The Barnt Green Inn becomes a place for gathering and reflection.</p>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Redditch: Limelight & Washford Mill</h2>
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<p class="card-text">Nightlife and edge. The nightclub and riverside pub offer contrast to the quieter streets nearer home.</p>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Belbroughton: The Bell</h2>
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<p class="card-text">A country pub to the west. Distance and quiet lanes give scenes here a different texture.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Austin Longbridge</h2>
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<p class="card-text">The car plant that symbolised Birmingham’s industrial heartbeat. A landmark as much as an employer.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col">
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Birmingham</h2>
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<p class="card-text">The city on the horizon. Bigger, busier, sometimes darker, always shaping the choices nearby.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<p class="text-muted small mt-3 mb-0">
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Artistic interpretation of 1983 locations; relationships over precise distances.
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