In message , at 17:09:16 on Mon, 9 Jan
2012, Tim Roll-Pickering remarked:
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.
--
Roland Perry