However, charities such as Age Concern said they believed two million pensioners would struggle to pay their bills and heat their homes as a result of the change.
"It's amazing, it's my favourite place to go to in Salisbury," he said, looking around the antique market where he has become a regular.Mr Barnes described spotting a bag hiding in the corner, inside of which he found a No1 Pocket Kodak, which went into production in the 1920s.
After working out the stiff complicated release mechanism, he opened it up and found film inside."I was in complete shock, I was so worried I had exposed the film because they are very, very light sensitive," he said."It's, like, 100 years old so I wasn't expecting the film to come out of it."
Just a few doors up the road from the antiques market is a business with the kit and skills to deal with such old film."It's nice to see the enthusiasm of a youngster buying this camera and getting it developed," said Ian Scott from the Fujifilm Salisbury Photocentre.
He revealed the first clue to identify the photos; although the camera is a century old, this particular type of film did not enter production until the late 1950s.
"Nobody had opened the camera and ruined the film in 70 years, which is incredible," he said."There's a massive stigma around ketamine. It isn't spoken about enough."
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