The Robson Green Web Site was created and is managed by fans based in the north east of England, UK.
Please note: although this was the only authorised website for the exclusive use of official photographs, news and information provided by Coastal Productions, this was not an official website.
Coastal Productions no longer operates but we still host this content. The fact that such content appears here does not constitute the agreement or approval of any comments/ editorial herein by Robson Green or Coastal Productions Ltd.
Site History
Back in 1990, a snippet of information regarding the Casualty actor Robson Green was added to the personal home page of Bill Richmond, which contained information on his favourite TV shows and actors. Who would have thought that one paragraph and a small photo of this actor would spawn an entire website dedicated to this one person!
At that time there was no fan club or information anywhere on this actor who obviously had a great talent. Of course, it wasn’t until some years later that a fully fledged Robson Green site was established; in 1996 the personal site was taken down and replaced with The ‘Unofficial’ Robson Green Web Site after Robson had appeared as Dave Tucker in the popular ITV drama Soldier Soldier.
The Official Robson Green Fan Club (created when the Robson & Jerome Fan Club closed) had no plans to launch a site of their own and it was felt that fans needed to have a ‘base’ from where to start on the internet – and this is where we came in. As Robson’s career progressed and his popularity grew – so did the Site and the kind of information that it could provide. The ‘Unofficial’ was dropped from The Robson Green Web Site title.
In 1998 we moved from the aggressively commercial and overcrowded GeoCities in the USA, which was hosted for free, to ClaraNET in the UK, which was our first step into paid hosting. We also obtained the domain of www.robsongreen.com.
In 1999, we began to forge links with Robson’s company, Coastal Productions, once they had decided that the way forward was to move to the internet and to close the fan club. Having already been established as the best RG site, it was the next – and best – step forward for The Robson Green Web Site.
With the links came extra information, which is where a sister site was created in the shape of RG Xtra. It was our plan to house exclusive photos and other items provided by Coastal at the new site. Unfortunately, after two years it became apparent that the main Site demanded too much time and work just to keep it maintained, and it was therefore agreed to close RG Xtra.
From late 2001 onwards we began the double process of merging our sister site, RG Xtra, with The Robson Green Web Site, whilst also moving to a new server. This allowed us to provide services we had previously been unable to offer. This also saw many of our pages moved and/or re-named, and our ‘Services’ section becoming ‘RG Xtra’.
In 2003 we obtained the domain of www.robsongreen.info for the sole use of the RG Forum and Media sections. Our “News” section became the “Media” section to take into account the myriad of sources of information in that section and consideration of the fact that not all information used in that section could always be classed as news!
In 2004 the domain of www.robsongreen.co.uk became available after sitting in the hands of a ‘cyber squatter’ for many years, and we obtained this to mirror the main site on a different server as back-up.
By 2007 social media was getting into full swing and the forum format for communicating with others became less popular, and it was decided to close the RG Forum and move to Facebook.
Today
Between 2013 and 2020, the Site was managed by Lorene Thomas over in Canada. Due to the demands of running her own business and a busy life in general, the Site came back across the Atlantic and is now managed from the North East again!
Juggling a busy site and life is no easy task, so robsongreen.com has now been archived. New updates will be added to robsongreen.co.uk and the Facebook page when time allows.