article_snippet: Two single beds side by side, canes hanging from coat hooks and retro British food tins on a gingham-covered countertop - these are the poignant images that capture the lives of two elderly sisters in their family home.
article_snippet: Two Sisters guest room is decorated with pink candlewick bedspreads, an electric fire and family pictures on the mantelpiece.
article_snippet: Jean's picture is in the centre, to  
article_snippet: Barker's pictures are as much a document of Two Sisters lives together and of a glimpse of a vanishing Britain.
article_snippet: Barker images  record an immaculately kept house with vintage features such as antimacassars on the armchairs, tins of treacle in the kitchen, a dressing table and highly-patterned carpets.
article_snippet: The  dressing table in the twin bedroom that Jean and Joy shared.
article_snippet: Jean and Joy beds are seen reflected in the mirror .
article_snippet: Niece Gill remembers how impractical these armchair 'tables' were andmugs of tea would slip off unless held on to tightly .
article_snippet: The sisters  had an identical much-loved chair and even Joy isn't sure whether this one was The sisters   or Jean's .