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.
