schools, the Roman Catholic St John the Baptist Primary School on North British Road and the non-denominational Muiredge Primary School on Watson Street. Uddingston Grammar School, the non-denominational secondary school, is located on the Meadowbank floodplain off Old Glasgow Road; originally founded in 1884, the school relocated to a new campus adjacent to the old buildings in 2009 (a year behind schedule). In addition to Muiredge, Uddingston Grammar's catchment extends over both the motorway and the river, encompassing primary schools in Bothwell, Birkenshaw, Viewpark and Newton (Cambuslang). The closest Roman Catholic secondary schools are Holy Cross High School, Hamilton and Cardinal Newman High School, Bellshill. Notable residents The wider Uddingston area has been home to a few successful footballers: Jimmy Johnstone, George McCluskey and John Higgins of Celtic; Tommy McQueen (Aberdeen, West Ham, Clyde, Falkirk); Iain Munro (player, coach and manager, Hibernian, St Mirren, Sunderland); Gary MacKenzie (Dundee, Blackpool); Lindsay Hamilton (Stenhousemuir, Rangers, St Johnstone, Dunfermline); and John Robertson who most notably played at Nottingham Forest, winning the European Cup. Barry Burns, the pianist/guitarist of the Scottish instrumental group Mogwai comes from Uddingston. Uddingston was the birthplace of James W. Black, (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) the Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for work leading to the discovery of Propranolol and Cimetidine. References External links Uddingston Community Council website Uddingston and Tannochside History Society Towns in South Lanarkshire Bothwell and Uddingston Greater Glasgow