A veteran archery club's members are finally going to get their new pavilion - after more than 60 years of being based in an 'oversized shed' that did not even have a lavatory.

The Windsor Forest Bowmen got planning permission for the new headquarters on St Stephen's Field in Home Park two years ago. But then began the long battle to raise the £124,000 needed to build it.

Finally with the help of a £74,000 lottery grant, £15,000 from the Royal Borough's Community and Economic Development team, donations from the Southern Counties Archery Society, the Shanley Foundation and lots of fund raising, the money has been raised.

Club chairman Chris Johnston, 55, of the Parkway, Iver Heath, said: "It means the end of using our oversized shed in St Stephen's Field in Home Park which we have had since 1951 which did not even have a loo. When I became chairman I decided we have to sort this out.

"We had to get planning permission for the new building before we could start fund raising. But we have made a titanic effort."

The club raised £24,000 and one member raised a good chunk of it by doing a left handed shoot over a whole round.

The new pavilion will be four times the size of the old 'shed' with disabled access and - of course - toilets.

Mr Johnston - a pilot for Virgin Atlantic - has been a keen archer all his life.

He was part of the elite team in the 1980s that helped raise the famous Tudor ship the Mary Rose that had sunk more than 400 years earlier.

The ship contained an amazing treasure trove of authentic Tudor bows and arrows. But as an army diver in the Royal Engineers he was not able to indulge his excitement at seeing too much.

He said: "I was too involved with the heavy engineering side of it all as everyone worked towards raising the ship."