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Welcome to the diptera community Hardy
If you wish to make a start on getting some idea of what various flies look like then the Gallery here on Diptera.info is a good place to start. Just browse through the various Families.
After that there are a handful of well structured sites that are well worth browsing through:
France: Galerie du Monde des Insectes at https://www.galer...hp#Diptera
Spain: Invertebrados InsectariumVirtual at https://www.biodi...vug9paqus7
Russia: The MacroClub project at https://macroid.r...hp?cat=671

Though we don't have an equivalent to those in the UK, the Flickr site of Steve Falk at https://www.flick...586945825/ covers a number of Families. The Flickr sites of Rui Andrade and Nikola Rahme are also worth exploring.