Meet the 83-year-old identical twins who share everything

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Identical twins Margaret and Maureen Beckwith, now aged 83, were born just five minutes apart on July 17 1940 and have been inseparable ever since. Video by SWNS.

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00:00 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

00:02 [LAUGHTER]

00:05 I'm Margaret.

00:18 I'm Maureen.

00:20 And I'm the eldest by five minutes.

00:24 We're twins.

00:24 We're related, but we're still friends.

00:27 And you can't have a better friend than a twin.

00:31 Quite often, we do wear the same clothes.

00:34 On purpose or by accident?

00:36 No, by accident.

00:37 And also, we've got the same taste, taste in fashion.

00:41 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

00:55 When we was at school, we used to change places

01:00 and see if anybody would notice.

01:03 They didn't at first, but we carried on.

01:07 And then when it was noticeable, we had to stop it.

01:11 And then when we first started work, when we was 15,

01:16 we worked as machinists.

01:18 And Margaret didn't like a job that she was doing one time.

01:24 I said, I'll see what you're doing,

01:25 and you see what I'm doing.

01:27 And then when we have finished tea break, you go to my machine,

01:31 and I'll go to yours.

01:33 And nobody ever did find out.

01:35 [LAUGHTER]

01:36 No, no.

01:38 But we only ever done that once, just in case.

01:41 [LAUGHTER]

01:42 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

01:46 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

01:49 If I'm not feeling 100%, I know neither is she.

02:06 And we'll phone each other, and we'll

02:08 compare how we feel in that.

02:11 And it's just one of those things.

02:13 It's what they call telepathy.

02:15 But well, I wasn't well.

02:19 And I phoned her, and I said, how are you doing today?

02:24 So she said, oh, she said, I've had a splitting headache.

02:26 I said, oh, thank goodness for that.

02:27 So she said, what?

02:28 I said, so have I. So I said, I know that everything's OK,

02:31 then, if we both feel like that.

02:33 Yeah.

02:34 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

02:37 We do a lot of things the same.

02:47 And we've got the same hairdresser.

02:50 We've had her for many, many years.

02:55 Even when we go on our walks and go shopping, we're together.

03:01 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

03:04 I went to work in a school.

03:13 And they still-- at my age now, we're both 83.

03:17 And when I go out, they'll say, oh, hello, Miss Wright.

03:23 And I say, oh, hello.

03:24 I said, do I know you?

03:25 Because they're older now, and they're 30s.

03:28 And, well, you used to be our dinner lady.

03:31 I said, and you still remember me?

03:33 So they said, oh, yes.

03:35 And the same people say hello to me.

03:39 So, oh, hello, Miss Wright.

03:41 And I say, no, I'm not the dinner lady.

03:44 I said, I'm the other twin.

03:45 [LAUGHS]

03:48 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

03:51 [WIND BLOWING]

03:54 [WIND BLOWING]

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04:00 [WIND BLOWING]

04:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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