Graeme Massie focuses on The Smugglers, a Southampton pub on a site owned by Oxford University.

Southampton's pubs and inns come in all shapes and sizes.

Many are large brewery or chain-owned, others are still small traditional family-run freehold establishments.

However, not many can claim that they stand on land owned by one of the world's most prestigious and successful universities.

Drinkers at Bernard Street's The Smugglers have the kudos of being able to say that their favourite watering hole is situated on land belonging to Oxford University.

In the 1170s there was a large influx of Norman French into the city.

A wealthy immigrant by the name of LaRiche bought large swathes of the bottom part of the city around the West Quay.

By 1343 the land had come into royal ownership and Edward III made a present of it to Queen Philippa.

She in turn used her money and property to start up Oxford University's Queen's College and it is the reason that Southampton has an Oxford Street and a College Street in that area.

To this day most of that land, including the site of The Smugglers, still belongs to Oxford University.