WINDRUSH PIONEER: OSWALD ‘COLUMBUS’ DENNISTON

Join us as we celebrate his life and outstanding service to the community.

Contributors include Friends & Acquaintances.

He left school at 14 to work on a sugar plantation but later trained as a sign-writer and decorator. His spirit of adventure saw him travelling from Jamaica to England on board the MV Empire Windrush and ma11age his own business in Brixton. He had been among the 236 men who spent their first night at Clapham South Deep Shelter in South London on 22 June 1948.