all lit up

the tree in General Gordon Square, in Woolwich, the centre of the community.

I'm guessing it was named after Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, who was a British army officer and administrator born in Woolwich. The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticized in a popular painting by George William Joy - General Gordon's Last Stand (1885, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery), and again in the film Khartoum (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. [taken from Wikipedia, so read with caution]