Roland Perry wrote:

It may just be me or my banks, but my experience in the UK is that lobbies
are being steadily phased out by banks, sometimes by refurbishment,
sometimes by simply fully locking the door overnight.

The only UK bank that I'm aware of that ever had lobbies was Lloyds (and
they needed an ATM card swipe to get in). The practice in other countries
of having a lobby open 24x7 which was separately doored off from the bank
itself never caught on.

Midland/HSBC were quite big on them back in the 1990s - it was one of the
reasons I took my first child account with them. They were originally ATM
card accessible but following cases of fake machines designed to capture
card details being placed on doors in the mid 2000s they moved over to a
completely open-access, press a button model. Then they found the lobbies
were becoming unsafe and nasty - I wonder why - and so moved to phase them
out altogether.

Halifax also had some lobbies back then and a few survive to this day.