David Cheverill was a fairground enthusiast from Wiltshire, who collected photographs of fairground scenes and artefacts from his travels.

David, who died in 2009 in his late 80s, lived in Wiltshire for most of his life. It was during his boyhood at Trowbridge that he was introduced to the world of the travelling showman when, at the age of seven, he was taken to a circus by his father.

After wartime service in the Army he was in charge of boiler maintenance at a local food factory, where he remained until retirement.

During his lifetime he amassed a substantial collection of fairground photographs, many of which he had taken himself. David left 18 photographic albums on his Will to Graham Downie, formerly the Secretary of the Midlands Section of the Showmen's Guild, Editor of the Fairground Mercury and Chairman of the Fairground Association of Great Britain, who donated it to the National Fairground and Circus Archive.