In 2013, retired forestry engineer Huseyin Cetinel spent four days and around £500 transforming the huge staircase, from concrete grey, to beautiful rainbow colours. Many assumed it must be connected to the gay rights movement, seeming to fit with the rainbow flag. Some said it must be an outcry against the controlling government. Huseyin’s motivation was something entirely different… “I didn’t do it for a group or as a form of activism. I did it to make people smile.”