During her lifetime Elizabeth and her brother amassed an extensive collection of Castleford Pottery.

Castleford Pottery was the collective name for a number of pottery producers located in or around Castleford , West Yorkshire.

David Dunderdale and Company produced from 1790 to 1821 mainly for the market in the USA however the Napolionic wars hampered export trade so much the company closed in 1821. Following this some smaller potteries evolved in Castleford including Thomas Nicholson and Company, WH Gill and Sons and finally Clokie and Company who brought pottery making to a close in the early 1960s.

Ferrybridge Pottery was founded in Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire in 1793. One of the potters working there was Ralph Wedgewood who worked there from 1798 to 1800. Other well know potters also came from Ferrybridge including Reed & Taylor, Benjamin Taylor, Lewis Woolf and the Poulson Brothers in the 20th century.

Ferrybridge was one of the potteries to use the Pratt colours named after the Staffordshire potters Pratt who introduced the colours of blue, yellow, orange, mauve and green to the products. There are some of these Pratt coloured items in the collection.

There are examples in the collection of English Delftware mainly from the 18th Century along with Brownware items made in the 18th and 19th Century near Halifax and have the heavt brown glaze.

Rockingham Pottery was in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and the only porcelain factory in Yorkshire producing fine tea services and decorative pieces. Rockingham pottery was marked with a red mark and accompanied by a griffin from 1826-1830 or later with a mauve mark with griffin from 1831- 1842. Additonally products were also marked mauve with the Brameld mark and this denoted that Rockingham Potteries were making products for the King. Rockingham is also famous for the deep brown glazed eathenware Cadogan teapot.