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They do them in Leyland if you’re prepared to look hard enough. Obviously I went to a Leyland in London so it might just be local stock! I’ve also invested in a 3mm stainless steel strip, drilled by me, to reinforce the door edge. The main thing to look out for on a London bar is that it is the right depth to secure the enclosure.
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Ha always struggle anywhere above Birmingham to get a 'London bar', its not that they even have a different name, just doesn't seem to be a thing.
Only ever once had a house broken into, but would use the term loosely. Was a victorian terraced townhouse with inner/outer doors. Outer door very solid, girls I lived with never ever locked it, inner door flimsy indoor quality with worlds most worn nightlatch on it and a thin bit of glass. Suspect they just gently leant on the inner door and it opened. Lasses got turned over for all their electronics, don't think I lost anything important, yet they never learned and year later (moved with some others) they still did the leaving the outer door open/worn out crappy inner door. Ah well!
Now every place I live in I spend a decent bit of £ changing all locks for something solid, reinforcing the door edges (often damaged from decades of being abused/forced/broken into a few times) with hardwood and monster screws, reinforce the frame with hardwood and monster screws and sometimes a metal insert plate to tie together all the keepers. Never been broken into since/not sure if anyone has tried as never been any damage or evidence of it, maybe I'm just lucky, but always think its worth spending a day and a couple hundred quid to secure a property. Can think of a grands worth of stuff worth snatching within 3 m of front door, so if it reduces the risk of theft from just a hallway then its worth it all day long IMO.