Construction of the main road took place in the 1920s and in 1930 work was started on Portsmouth Airport – the site was eventually redeveloped as Anchorage Park.
On August 15, 1967, there were two crashes involving aircraft returning from Jersey; both planes were unable to stop on the wet grass runway.
The first crashed into the airport fence near the road, with no major injuries. The second, also unable to stop, ended up on the Eastern Road.
The Tour de France came through Portsmouth for Stage 5 of the race and made its way up the Eastern Road in 1994.
Part of it was also used as a car racing track in the early years. It took around 20 years to build and opened on May 6, 1942.
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17. The Eastern Road Portsmouth
Firefighters at the scene. The Channel Airways aeroplane which ploughed off Portsmouth Airport's grass runway and ended up on Eastern Road in August 1967. No-one was injured. Photo: The News archive
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Businessmen walking across the construction site on Eastern Road in 1938. The News PP5297 Photo: The News archive
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City officials walking the newly ‘completed' Eastern Road. Photo: The News archive
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The Eastern Road only ran as far as the airport until it was extended and opened for its full length in 1942. Photo: The News archive