Hi trying to locate an old freind RICHARD THOMAS he would be approx 56 i think his father was a free forrester of the forest of dean. When he was about 20 he worked on farms. I know its not much but i would love to find him again. Any help would be great.

Hi and welcome,
please be reminded that this site is NOT intended for finding living people, as the site guidelines state.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=10668
To guard & respect the privacy of living people "recent" records are not readily available to the public, altho searching the Glos Archives and FreeBMD sites may help guide you as they do show births registered until the mid 60s or so.
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/SimpleSearch.aspx
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Looking at the FreeBMD site for "Gloucestershire" and "Forest of Dean" Districts gives a few possible "hits".

I suggest your best plan is to write to the local newspapers which have much greater coverage/readership than this website, this prior thread will help.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=41195

That said, as you've probably guessed Richard Thomas is not a rare name in the general area, so you need to include as much extra background information as you possibly can, for example where/when you knew him.

Good luck with your search.