We’ve had a look back through the archives to find some of our favourite photos from the last few decades.
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Portsmouth Corporation electric tram No 19 negotiating floods in Commercial Road in August 1911. | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN
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A close up of the girls pushing their cycles through a bombed out Commercial Road. | JPIMedia Photo: BOB HIND
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August 1911 and torrential rain flooded Commercial Road in what is now Guildhall Square. | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN
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Sailors clearing debris from the remains of the Hippodrome, Commercial Road during the Blitz | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN
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The Wild West Show makes its way north along Commercial Road. | Other 3rd Party Photo: -
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Commercial Road at its junction with Crasswell Street. July 1972. | Other 3rd Party Photo: BOB HIND
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A young lad gets an unforgettable moment with the Queen during her 1977 Silver Jubilee walkabout in Commercial Road | JPIMedia Photo: JPIMedia
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Commercial Road flooded after a rainstorm in 1911 | Other 3rd Party Photo: -
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The old main post office on the corner of Commercial Road and Stanhope Road. Portsmouth, 1975 | JPIMedia Photo: JPIMedia
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Boots the Chemist being built in Commercial Road, 1976 | JPIMedia Photo: JPIMedia
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The Criterion pub is flanked by the closed Claremont Tavern in December 1973. | Other 3rd Party Photo: -
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Landports store sitting amongst war damage in Commercial Road | JPIMedia Photo: JPIMedia
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Commercial Road, now Guildhall Walk, in 1909 | Other 3rd Party Photo: -
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The Osborne Hotel, Commercial Road. Mile End. | Other 3rd Party Photo: -
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A marvellous rarely-seen view of the Hippodrome Theatre in Commercial Road | Other 3rd Party Photo: JPIMedia
1. RW 20-09-10 brown2.JPG
Portsmouth Corporation electric tram No 19 negotiating floods in Commercial Road in August 1911. | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN
2. RW 05-03-11 GIRLS ON COMMER.JPG
A close up of the girls pushing their cycles through a bombed out Commercial Road. | JPIMedia Photo: BOB HIND
3. RW 19-11-10 commrdFLOOD.JPG
August 1911 and torrential rain flooded Commercial Road in what is now Guildhall Square. | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN
4. RW 23-11-10 SMITTEN.JPG
Sailors clearing debris from the remains of the Hippodrome, Commercial Road during the Blitz | JPIMedia Photo: CHRIS OWEN