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Meet the 83-year-old identical twins who share everything
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01/03/2024
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]
03:57
[WIND BLOWING]
04:00
[WIND BLOWING]
04:03
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