Desmond Ambrose

Desmond Ambose is the main character of Desmond's. He runs the barber shop having moved to Peckham from Guyana with his wife Shirley in 1959. He likes to drink rum, play dominos and watch the West Indies play cricket. He holds old fashioned views on most subjects and derides modern ways as being pretentious. According to Porkpie he was the first of the characters to come to England. He dreams of retiring to Guyana but Shirley prefers to stay in England. He is one of the members of the band The Georgetown Dreamers having the nickname Jazzy D.

According to Shirley in the 3rd episode of Season 6 she has spent 35 years in England and Season 6 ran during 1994.