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A statue of Jane Taylor and her sister Ann was unveiled in Colchester on Saturday.

Catherine has sent her “best wishes for the unveiling” of a statue in Colchester High Street commemorating Jane Taylor and her sister Ann.

A large statue is set to be unveiled in honour of a famous author and her sister who wrote an iconic nursery rhyme in Colchester.

Colchester High Street will play home to the new statue which is being created in Lawford

Sir Bob Russell has secured the funding needed to allow workers to begin building the statue for Colchester

The statue, which will immortalise sisters Jane and Ann Taylor, will be put up next to Tesco

The siblings grew up in West Stockwell Street, Colchester

FILM and TV star Joanna Lumley has backed plans to see a statue immortalising Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star writer Jane Taylor built in Colchester.

Historic - Mandy Pratt with Sir Bob Russell and students Rosie Burnside-Fitch and Emma Pugh (right) who were the models for the maquette statue of Jane and Ann Taylor. PLANS to build a statue celebrating the sisters behind the famous nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle Little star are making progress. The statue, which could cost in the region of £80,000, would honour the Colchester sisters Jane and Ann Taylor who wrote children’s poems. Jane’s poem called The Star, written in 1806, is no...