Alton Football Club has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of its move to a new ground.

The Brewers changed homes in December 2015, leaving the Bass Ground in Anstey Road for a revamped Anstey Park Enclosure around the corner in Anstey Lane.

Alton had two football grounds because at one time there were separate senior clubs - Alton Town, who played at the Enclosure and reached the first round of the FA Cup in 1972-73, and Bass (Alton), who played at the Bass Ground - the club and its ground being owned by the Bass brewing company.

The clubs merged in 1990 and moved to the Bass Ground, eventually settling on the Alton Town name, with youth football club Alton United taking over the Enclosure.

The Bass Ground’s name remained the same when Molson Coors bought the massive Bass brewery in Alton in 2001 - but when Molson Coors closed it in May 2015 and sold all its land in the town for housing, the Brewers faced homelessness.

A spirited campaign to save the club and lengthy negotiations had a happy ending, with the senior and junior clubs calling the Enclosure their home and eventually uniting under the name Alton FC.

Molson Coors paid to upgrade the ground with a new seated stand, a new roof over the existing covered terrace, floodlights and a 3G artificial pitch.

The final game at the Bass Ground was on December 5, 2015, when 102 people saw Alton Town beat East Cowes Victoria Athletic 4-0, with two goals each from Ash Peck and Sean Latimer.

On December 12, 2015, the Anstey Park Enclosure opened with 251 spectators watching Alton Town win 4-0 again versus AFC Stoneham, with Luke Perkins and Jonny Gray bagging braces.

The switch was marked with a three-page special in the programme for Alton’s match with Fleet Town on December 16.