Re-enactment group show off the rotten teeth, sore and filthy clothes of the Victoria era

An actor plays a fisherman who rests his head in his palm as he braces the cold weather outside the SS Great Britain in the Great Western Dockland in Bristol

Mistletoe is stacked in brown sacks as an actor dressed as a fisherman smokes his pipes while two women rest their feet on the barrels behind him

A man smokes a pipe in the wintry conditions. The re-enactment groups brings the past of circa 1851 to life by donning ragged clothing – typical for lower-class Victorians

An actor covers herself in blankets to protect herself from the cold as she clutches a basket of mistletoe and festive chestnuts

Children play as the snow falls around them in a traditional Dickensian Christmas scene as one boy is seen patting a working horse  

Two actors sit solemnly near barrels with one woman holding a basket of lavender with dirt and scars on her face as she contends with the winter chill 

The Ragged Victorians – The Great Unwashed depict a scene from Victorian Britain as a young girl plays in the street as snow falls around her 

An actor plays a mother holding a baby in a bonnet on the chilly December day. For most of the 19th century, dentistry was a back-street horror show in Britain until the Dentists Act was passed in 1878 – which limited the title of ‘dentist’ and ‘dental surgeon’ to registered practitioners

A woman in the Dickensian scene shows scarring and sunken eyes to illustrate the everyday struggle of the lower-classes and lack of medical care (left). A man with a waistcoat and neckerchief surveys the SS Great Britain (right) 

Actors portray sailors who are shown to take a break from the hard work as they rest on ropes next to the SS Great Britain. A man with a bandaged foot and walking stick braces the cold 

An actor with a burgundy coat and matching neckerchief proudly smiles (left). A woman is depicted to be stricken by poverty as she looks glumly into the distance (right) 

An actor dressed as smart Victorian man with a top hat has a scar around his eye as he smiles into the distance on the winter day 

An actor laughs as he is seen in worn and ragged clothing with a thick beard. The re-enactment resembles a scene from a Charles Dickens novel whose romantic idea of a White Christmas has cemented itself in popular culture  

A man plays an SS Great Britain sailor as he takes a break from the waves to have a tipple with a woman near the docks on the bracing Sunday 

Inside the ship shows a hoard of produce that is likely to have featured in the 1800s. It shows a crate of cox’s apples and biscuits

Meat and mistletoe can be seen hanging in lower deck of the ship. Only first and second class passengers were allowed to eat the fresh meat 

An actor with a festive red neckerchief stands with a basket of crumpets as lower-class Victorian women shop for produce 

A woman wraps herself in a checked shawl and shows signs of poverty with dirt over her chest and face to depict harsh realities of the poor 

The SS Great Britain. The ship, which was built in 1843, was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854, and was designed by Brunel alongside William Paterson and Thomas Guppy