READ MORE: Cold weather and 25-hour wait as people warned not to join queue to see Queen's coffin "It’s like a ghost town, that’s the only way you can describe it,” Christopher James told the Manchester Evening News .
The 76-year-old, who grew up in Droylsden but now lives in a town nearby, added: “Obviously all the shops have closed down."The area itself has gone a bit downhill, it’s not as clean and from what I’ve heard there is a lot of crime, especially around the tram stop.
It used to have a market; it was a lot busier than it is now. It was quite popular, it was buzzing."“It’s just cr*p,” Droylsden resident Bill Stewart, 67, said. “It went downhill once the market went.
They’ve built some shops, but it’s not the same.“They used to charge for parking and then people stopped coming when the tram was built at the crossroads because it was a mess for ages.
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